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Military service
Service number:
112236
Age:
37
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
October 19, 1878
Stratford, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 25, 1915
St. Thomas, Ontario
Death:
June 3, 1916
Ypres, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of the late Matthew and Elizabeth Headley, of 148, Charles St., Stratford; husband of Leonora Headley (nee Cosstick), of Stratford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William John Hugh Headley
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Inscription
Inscription on plate 32 of the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private William John Hugh Headley
Digital gallery of
Private William John Hugh Headley
Digital gallery of
Private William John Hugh Headley
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 101 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)
Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.
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