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Military service
Service number:
862164
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
August 8, 1883
Death:
May 4, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private William Gordon
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Newspaper Clipping
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Photo of William Gordon
GORDON, William, 862164, Private, 4th Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regt.) KIA by a shell at 10.30 a.m. as he stood in his own line at Vimy Ridge on 3rd (4th ?) May 1917. He was the son of Smyth & Nancy Gordon, Killybegs, Slatt, Ballymena. Commemorated on Vimy Memorial. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM GORDON
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private William Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private William Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private William Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private William Gordon
Digital gallery of
Private William Gordon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 245 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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