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Military service
Service number:
791212
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
September 22, 1897
Vancouver, British Columbia
Enlistment:
October 21, 1916
Vernon, British Columbia
Death:
August 8, 1918
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Son of Emily Sarah Brady (formerly Unwin), of 3556, Victoria Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, and the late John Henry Unwin.
Digital gallery of Private William Thomas Unwin
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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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver World newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private William Thomas Unwin
Digital gallery of
Private William Thomas Unwin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 515 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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