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Military service
Service number:
602983
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Death:
June 13, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
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Digital gallery of Private William James Thurgood
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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War Memorial
Private WILLIAM JAMES THURGOOD, killed in action on June 13, 1916, is commemorated on this panel of the war memorial in Stratford, Ontario. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL, Belgium, which is dedicated TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH. -
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Honour roll
British Home Children World War 1 Honour Roll
Digital gallery of
Private William James Thurgood
Digital gallery of
Private William James Thurgood
Digital gallery of
Private William James Thurgood
Digital gallery of
Private William James Thurgood
Digital gallery of
Private William James Thurgood
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 173 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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