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Military service
Service number:
198810
Age:
37
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
28th Bn.
Birth:
July 10, 1879
Death:
September 29, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of William and Ann Murray Paterson, of Newhaven, Scotland; husband of Catherine McBally Paterson, of Windsor, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Paterson
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Roll of Honour
Source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included the Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses. -
Roll of Honour
Detail: Roll of Honour, Fort William employees, The Ogilvie Flour Mills Company Ltd. Pte. Paterson's name was misspelled. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). 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) -
Vimy Memorial
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) -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private William Paterson
Digital gallery of
Private William Paterson
Digital gallery of
Private William Paterson
Digital gallery of
Private William Paterson
Digital gallery of
Private William Paterson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 145 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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