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Military service
Service number:
105627
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
5th Bn.
Birth:
August 29, 1888
Death:
September 11, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXXVII. B. 14.
Additional information
Son of William C. and Essie Dickson, of Ayton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Gordon Dickson
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was discovered and exhumed at a later date and now rests in a marked grave.May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Deuel to Domoney. Microform Sequence 28; Volume Number 31829_B016737. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 172. Page 431 of 1084.
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Private William Gordon Dickson
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Private William Gordon Dickson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 78 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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