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Military service
Service number:
171795
Age:
30
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
December 19, 1886
Death:
October 30, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of William and Emily King, of Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private William John King
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Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of William King
William King was a dispatch runner carrying messages to the front at the battle of Passchendaele. He was killed by a German artillery shell and he remains where he fell with no known grave site. -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper Clipping
In honoured memory.
Digital gallery of
Private William John King
Digital gallery of
Private William John King
Digital gallery of
Private William John King
Digital gallery of
Private William John King
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 268 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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