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Military service
Service number:
814598
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
19th Bn.
Birth:
September 18, 1890
Death:
May 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of the late Jacob and Hannah Hagar; husband of the late Ethel Marsden Hagar.
Digital gallery of Private William Hagar
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War Memorial
139th Battalion (Northumberland County) War Memorial plaque, 1919. 130 names of men who originally enlisted with this Ontario unit. On display at the Victoria Hall, 55 King Street West, Cobourg, Ontario. Also shown - Cobourg (Ontario) War Memorial at Victoria Park. -
Inscription
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) -
Vimy Memorial
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) -
Circumstances of death
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Private William Hagar
Digital gallery of
Private William Hagar
Digital gallery of
Private William Hagar
Digital gallery of
Private William Hagar
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 249 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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