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Military service
Service number:
663196
Age:
18
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Division:
164th Bn
Birth:
September 29, 1898
Amaranth, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 27, 1916
Shelburne, Ontario
Death:
January 24, 1917
Hamilton
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of John and Annie O'Reilly, of Grand Valley, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Wilfred O'Reilly
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Memorial Wreath
Memorial wreath of Wilfred O'Reilly Shelburne Ontario -
Funeral
Funeral of Wilfred O'Reilly Shelburne Ontario -
Monument
Orangeville (Dufferin County) Ontario War Memorial. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press Jan. 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press Jan. 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Biography
Wilfred O’Reilly in uniform -
Award Citation
Silver Cross - it was my Great Grandmother Annie O’Reilly’s and is now in the possession of Lynn Ann Ketchell who is a niece of Wilfred O’Reilly -
Biography
Buried in a family plot..Trinity Ward Section, Lot 29. Shelburne Cemetery Shelburne ON - written on the tombstone:: "One precious to our heart is gone, A voice we loved is still, A place is vacant in our home, Which never can be filled."
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Private Wilfred O'Reilly
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred O'Reilly
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred O'Reilly
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred O'Reilly
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred O'Reilly
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred O'Reilly
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred O'Reilly
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred O'Reilly
Digital gallery of
Private Wilfred O'Reilly
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 303 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SHELBURNE CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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