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Military service
Service number:
401788
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Army Medical Corps
Division:
Field Amb.
Birth:
August 23, 1890
Death:
September 6, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of William and Laura Griffiths, of Eckington, Pershore, England.
Digital gallery of Private William Griffiths
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Memorial Plaque
Roll of Honour is located in the Middlesex Memorial Tower, University College.<P> University of Western Ontario, London Ontario.<P> Courtesy of University of Western Ontario Gazette <P> -
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 95 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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