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Military service
Service number:
11556
Age:
27
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
3rd Tunnelling Coy.
Enlistment:
Brantford, Ontario
Death:
March 25, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 47.
Additional information
Son of Albert William and Margaret Florence Betts, of Brantford, Ontario. Enlisted August, 1914.
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bernard to Binyon. Mircoform Sequence 9; Volume Number 31829_B016719; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 153 Page 303 of 652 -
Entrance to Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of William Hayes Betts
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Brantford Expositor 1916. Submitted or the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Hayes Betts
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Hayes Betts
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Hayes Betts
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Hayes Betts
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Hayes Betts
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Hayes Betts
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 54 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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