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Military service
Service number:
81228
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
8th Bn.
Birth:
November 15, 1882
Merrickville, Ontario
Enlistment:
December 23, 1914
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
September 26, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Dennis and Mary Ann Driscoll, of Merrickville, Ontario. Pte Driscoll was a carpenter before he enlisted with the Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment), 8th Battalion. Information courtesy of the Merrickville Memorial Project, May 2002.
Digital gallery of Private William Ambrose Driscoll
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Photo of William Ambrose Driscoll
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
Memorial Page
William Ambrose Driscoll is honoured on page 11 of the <i>Merrickville Remembers</i> booklet, published in January 2003. -
Merrickville Remembers
This project was sponsored jointly by the Canadian Legion Branch 245 and the Merrickville District Community Health Centre. Serving on the Committee were Jack Jessop, Past President of Legion Branch 245; Joyce McKay, who lost a brother in the Second World War; Peter McKenna, Executive Director of Merrickville and District Community Health Centre; and Jack Wilcox, who upon discharge from the Canadian Army in 1945, prepared the Sydney Academy Memorial Booklet honouring the students of the Academy who gave their lives in the Second World War. -
Biography - page 1
Biography courtesy of the Lest We Forget remembrance initiative of the Smith Falls District Collegiate. -
Biography - page 2
Biography courtesy of the Lest We Forget remembrance initiative of the Smith Falls District Collegiate. -
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) -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 969 of 1076.
Digital gallery of
Private William Ambrose Driscoll
Digital gallery of
Private William Ambrose Driscoll
Digital gallery of
Private William Ambrose Driscoll
Digital gallery of
Private William Ambrose Driscoll
Digital gallery of
Private William Ambrose Driscoll
Digital gallery of
Private William Ambrose Driscoll
Digital gallery of
Private William Ambrose Driscoll
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 80 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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