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Military service
Service number:
160295
Age:
38
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
50th Bn.
Death:
November 9, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of the late Alexander and Margaret Shaw Williamson, of Glasgow, Scotland; husband of Bertha Isobel Hornby Williamson.
Digital gallery of Private Alexander Williamson
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Calgary Herald. 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)
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Williamson
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Williamson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 183 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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