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Military service
Service number:
109119
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
October 19, 1892
Death:
June 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of Anna M. Defoe of Toronto, Ontario.
Brother of Private Vincent Laurent Defoe, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment).
Digital gallery of Private William Augustus Defoe
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Memorial Stained Glass
Pvt. W.Augustus DeFoe's name on stain glass window (center bottom) in Sts. Cyril and Methodius Roman Catholic Church in Mississauga, Ontario. The stain glass was originally in St. Basil's Church in Toronto. -
Memorial Stained Glass
Pvt. W.Augustus Defoe's name on stain glass window in Sts. Cyril and Methodius Roman Catholic Church in Mississauga, Ontario. The stain glass was originally in St. Basil's Church in Toronto. -
Memorial
Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial Plaque
Memorial Plaque -
Memorial Notice
This memorial notice for Pte. W. A. Defoe's brother mentions that Pte. Defoe was still considered missing in action at that time. -
Memorial
The memorial tablet for the City of Toronto employees is located through the doors of Old City Hall, Queen Street, Toronto, Ontario. Pte. William Augustus Defoe's name is included on this memorial. Pte. Defoe had worked as a draughtsman in the Civic Works Department for the City of Toronto. -
Newspaper Clipping
Pte. William Augustus Defoe enlisted in the C.E.F. in Toronto on November 28th, 1914. He indicated on his military attestation that he had previously served for two years with the 9th Mississauga Horse. His brother Pte. Vincent Defoe, 475820, also died in the war on September 17th, 1916. Sgt. Frederick R. Defoe, 56090, survived the war. The three brothers were all born in Toronto. In honoured memory of the Defoe brothers. -
Photo of William Augustus Defoe
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM AUGUSTUS DEFOE
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 423 of 1036. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private William Augustus Defoe
Digital gallery of
Private William Augustus Defoe
Digital gallery of
Private William Augustus Defoe
Digital gallery of
Private William Augustus Defoe
Digital gallery of
Private William Augustus Defoe
Digital gallery of
Private William Augustus Defoe
Digital gallery of
Private William Augustus Defoe
Digital gallery of
Private William Augustus Defoe
Digital gallery of
Private William Augustus Defoe
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 76 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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