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Military service
Service number:
706585
Age:
26
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Birth:
July 22, 1890
Death:
October 28, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Mary Griffith, of 535, Sumas St., Victoria, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal William James Griffith
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Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Colonist of November 18, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y296uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William James Griffith
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William James Griffith
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William James Griffith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 248 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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