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Military service
Service number:
B/98435
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Division:
4th Armd. Div. Troops Coy.
Birth:
September 27, 1916
Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 5, 1940
Camp Borden, Ontario
Death:
November 10, 1944
In the field, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. D. 17.
Additional information
Son of William A. and Annie R. Walton, of Hamilton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Douglas Walton
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Grave Marker
Grave marker … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery Entrance
Entrance … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cross of Sacrifice
Cross of Sacrifice located in Plots 4 and 4A … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
View of Plot 3 … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Digital gallery of
Private William Douglas Walton
Digital gallery of
Private William Douglas Walton
Digital gallery of
Private William Douglas Walton
Digital gallery of
Private William Douglas Walton
Digital gallery of
Private William Douglas Walton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 471 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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