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Military service
Service number:
A/37398
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Regiment
Division:
'A' Coy.
Birth:
October 28, 1914
Inniskilling
Enlistment:
June 15, 1940
Galt, Ontario
Death:
September 4, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. E. 16.
Additional information
Son of William Wilson (killed in action, 1914-1918 War), and of Jennie Wilson, of Rushden, Northamptonshire.
Digital gallery of Private William Wilson
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Photo of William Wilson
Private William Wilson, son of WO2 William Wilson (d.o.w. on September 16, 1918) and Jeannie Wilson (née Scott). He had enlisted with A Company, Lorne Scots, on April 7, 1938, and transferred to HLI (Active Service Force) on June 15, 1940. He transferred to R.C.R. on May 20, 1944 and was killed in action on September 4, 1944. Photograph taken June 1940.
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Private William Wilson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 481 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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