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Military service
Service number:
63343
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
13th Bn.
Birth:
March 24, 1891
Merrickville, Ontario
Enlistment:
November 3, 1914
Edmonton, Alberta
Death:
June 27, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of John and Elizabeth Fitzgerald, of Benvyn, Alberta. He attested that he was a labourer and was single. He is the uncle of Bill Barber of Merrickville, Ontario. Information courtesy of the Merrickville Memorial Project, May 2002.
Digital gallery of Private William Fitzgerald
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Photo of William Fitzgerald
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
Memorial Page
William Fitzgerald is honoured on page 13 of the <i>Merrickville Remembers</i> booklet, published in January 2003. -
Merrickville Remembers
This project was sponsored jointly by the Canadian Legion Branch 245 and the Merrickville District Community Health Centre. Serving on the Committee were Jack Jessop, Past President of Legion Branch 245; Joyce McKay, who lost a brother in the Second World War; Peter McKenna, Executive Director of Merrickville and District Community Health Centre; and Jack Wilcox, who upon discharge from the Canadian Army in 1945, prepared the Sydney Academy Memorial Booklet honouring the students of the Academy who gave their lives in the Second World War. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private William Fitzgerald
Digital gallery of
Private William Fitzgerald
Digital gallery of
Private William Fitzgerald
Digital gallery of
Private William Fitzgerald
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 86 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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