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Military service
Service number:
158538
Age:
34
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
January 14, 1882
Enlistment:
St.Catherines, Ontario
Death:
October 10, 1916
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Additional information
Son of William Birse, of 14, Burn Lane, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Corporal William Birse
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Corporal William Birse
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 54 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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