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Military service
Service number:
A/71123
Age:
27
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
September 12, 1917
Perth, Ontario
Enlistment:
April 10, 1942
Listowel, Ontario
Death:
October 15, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. E. 8.
Additional information
Son of William and Elizabeth Knechtel of Hamilton, Ontario, brother of Edward, Norman, Albert, Harold, Russell and Betty. Husband of Elizabeth Hanna (née Legge) Knechtel, of Vancouver, British Columbia. His civilian trade was carpenter.
Digital gallery of Corporal Wilson Abel Knechtel
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Gravemarker
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Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Corporal Wilson Abel Knechtel
Digital gallery of
Corporal Wilson Abel Knechtel
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 354 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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