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Digital gallery of Private William Wood
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
Pte Wood originally enlisted with the 220th Bn before transfer to the 15th Bn and his subsequent death at the DQ Line.
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Private William Wood
Shoulder Patch 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
Pte Wood originally enlisted with the 220th Bn before transfer to the 15th Bn and his subsequent death at the DQ Line.
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Private William Wood
Cap Badge 220th Bn. Private Wood was a member of the 220th Bn (York Rangers) before being sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Captain (retired) victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
The 15th Batallion memorial at Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt, France on the site of the wooded hill known during the war as “The Crow’s Nest”. The 15th Battalion assaulted and captured the Crow’s Nest on 1 Sept 1918 in the opening phase of the Canadian attack on the Drocourt-Queant Line. The memorial was dedicated on 26 April 2010 to those of the 15th Battalion who fell here and in the breakthrough of the D-Q line in early September 1918. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private William Wood
Record of Service Card (front side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private William Wood
Record of Service Card (reverse side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private William Wood
Pte William Wood originally joined the 220th Battalion before first being transferred to the 134th Battalion and finally to the 15th Battalion.
Cap badge of the 134th Battalion.
Submitted by BGen G Young 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project.
Dileas Gu Brath
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Private William Wood
Photograph of Pte William Wood in the 134th Battalion before being transferred to the 15th Battalion.
Submitted by BGen G Young 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project.
Dileas Gu Brath
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
Photograph of Pte William Wood (left) in the 134th Battalion before being transferred to the 15th Battalion.
Submitted by BGen G Young 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project.
Dileas Gu Brath
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
Photograph of Pte William Wood in the 220th Battalion before being transferred to 134th Battalion.
Submitted by BGen G Young 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project.
Dileas Gu Brath
Digital gallery of
Private William Wood
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)
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Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH Pte Wood originally enlisted with the 220th Bn before transfer to the 15th Bn and his subsequent death at the DQ Line.
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Shoulder Patch 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman on behalf of 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH Pte Wood originally enlisted with the 220th Bn before transfer to the 15th Bn and his subsequent death at the DQ Line.
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Cap Badge 220th Bn. Private Wood was a member of the 220th Bn (York Rangers) before being sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Captain (retired) victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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The 15th Batallion memorial at Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt, France on the site of the wooded hill known during the war as “The Crow’s Nest”. The 15th Battalion assaulted and captured the Crow’s Nest on 1 Sept 1918 in the opening phase of the Canadian attack on the Drocourt-Queant Line. The memorial was dedicated on 26 April 2010 to those of the 15th Battalion who fell here and in the breakthrough of the D-Q line in early September 1918. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Record of Service Card (front side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Record of Service Card (reverse side). Courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. Submitted by 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Pte William Wood originally joined the 220th Battalion before first being transferred to the 134th Battalion and finally to the 15th Battalion. Cap badge of the 134th Battalion. Submitted by BGen G Young 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project. Dileas Gu Brath
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Photograph of Pte William Wood in the 134th Battalion before being transferred to the 15th Battalion. Submitted by BGen G Young 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project. Dileas Gu Brath
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Photograph of Pte William Wood (left) in the 134th Battalion before being transferred to the 15th Battalion. Submitted by BGen G Young 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project. Dileas Gu Brath
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Photograph of Pte William Wood in the 220th Battalion before being transferred to 134th Battalion. Submitted by BGen G Young 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project. Dileas Gu Brath
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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)
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Page 525 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
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