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Military service
Service number:
71599
Age:
32
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
27th Bn.
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
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Son of Robert and Annie Hamilton, of 168, Russell St., Moss Side, Manchester, England; husband of Monica Hamilton, of Lumsden Farm, Meadows, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Sergeant William Eastwood Green Hamilton
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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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Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Eastwood Green Hamilton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 98 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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