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Military service
Service number:
106144
Age:
29
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regt.)
Birth:
January 14, 1887
Enlistment:
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of William and Bessie Coleman, of Palmerston, Ontario.
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Corporal William Richard Coleman
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War Memorial
Barrie, Ontario Cenotaph Innisfil Memorial -
Death notice
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CLEAL TO CONNOLLY. Microform Sequence 21; Volume Number 31829_B016730. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 165. Page 785 of 1384 -
Memorial Park
Cookstown Memorial Park -
Memorial
Cookstown Cenotaph -
Memorial
Cookstown Cenotaph -
Street sign
Barrie street named in honour of Corporal William Richard Coleman with a poppy. -
Memorial
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) -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Grave for Corporal William Richard Coleman in Cookstown, Ontario.
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Richard Coleman
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Richard Coleman
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Richard Coleman
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Richard Coleman
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Richard Coleman
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Richard Coleman
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Richard Coleman
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Richard Coleman
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Richard Coleman
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 68 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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