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Military service
Service number:
166534
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Pioneers
Division:
2nd Pioneer Battalion.
Birth:
February 28, 1894
Death:
April 10, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 32
Additional information
Son of William and Charlotte Gordon, of 33, Grandview Avenue, Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private William James Gordon
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM JAMES GORDON
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Inscription on Menin Gate
Inscription on the Menin Gate, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William James Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private William James Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private William James Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private William James Gordon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 93 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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