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Military service
Service number:
420864
Age:
28
Rank:
Company Sergeant Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
"C" Coy. 43rd Bn.
Birth:
September 26, 1887
Death:
June 10, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Sinclair and Agnes Gibson Laird.
Digital gallery of Company Sergeant Major William Gibson Laird
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Photo of William Gibson Laird
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Diary
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Attestation Paper
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Attestation Paper
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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The Menin Gate
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Gibson Laird
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Gibson Laird
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Gibson Laird
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Gibson Laird
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Gibson Laird
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Gibson Laird
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Gibson Laird
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major William Gibson Laird
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 115 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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