Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade
Division:
1st Gun Brigade.
Death:
March 24, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
1st Son of Major Arthur Edward Snyder, of 3847, Trinity St., Vancouver, British Columbia; husband of the late Constance Helen Snyder.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant William Hilliard Snyder
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Photo of WILLIAM HILLIARD SNYDER
From Volume 1 of Letters From The Front produced by the Canadian Bank of Commerce. -
Memorial Headstone
Is listed on his parents headstone in Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC<P> Plot: JONES/*/31/040/0007 -
Photo of WILLIAM HILLIARD SNYDER
In memory of the employees from the Canadian Bank Of Commerce (CIBC) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of April 4, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y102uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Wartime diary
Detail of action where Lieutenant Snyder was killed (page 2 of 2) taken from War diaries - 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade = Journal de guerre - 1re Brigade canadienne de mitrailleurs motorisés. Date: 1918/06/01-1919/05/04 Reference: RG9-III-D-3. Volume/box number: 4987. File number: 628 00001132656. -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Hilliard Snyder
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Hilliard Snyder
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Hilliard Snyder
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Hilliard Snyder
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Hilliard Snyder
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Hilliard Snyder
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Hilliard Snyder
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 504 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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