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Private William Strain

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Military service

Service number: 237293
Age: 19
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division: 75th Bn.
Birth: February 15, 1898
Death: June 8, 1917

Burial/memorial information

CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2
Grave reference: 6.C.20.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

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Page 334 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 Pas de Calais, France

The CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 is about 2.5 kilometres north of the village of Neuville-St. Vaast. The village is about 6 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre east of the main road from Arras to Bethune. The cemetery is on a spur road turning left from the road to Givenchy-en-Gohelle, about 1 kilometre south of the Canadian Memorial at Vimy.

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