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Military service
Service number:
157618
Age:
17
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
December 18, 1896
Death:
October 9, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of James A. and Martha Lang, of Craighurst, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Lang
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Photo of William Lang
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Circumstances of Death
Circumstances of Death- Private William Lang. -
Inscription
Vimy Memorial - August 2012 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
National Memorial Album
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM LANG
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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) -
Memorial
Vespra Cenotaph, Barrie, Ontario
Digital gallery of
Private William Lang
Digital gallery of
Private William Lang
Digital gallery of
Private William Lang
Digital gallery of
Private William Lang
Digital gallery of
Private William Lang
Digital gallery of
Private William Lang
Digital gallery of
Private William Lang
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 116 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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