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Military service
Service number:
B/36737
Age:
23
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
December 16, 1921
Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 8, 1941
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
February 27, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVI. H. 1.
Additional information
Son of William Alexander and Doris Dearness; husband of Margaret Alice Irene Dearness, of Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal William Alexander Dearness
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Circumstances of death
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Medal
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of WILLIAM ALEXANDER DEARNESS
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of WILLIAM ALEXANDER DEARNESS
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
This photo of Cpl Dearness's gravemarker was taken in June 2003.
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Alexander Dearness
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Alexander Dearness
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Alexander Dearness
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Alexander Dearness
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Alexander Dearness
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Alexander Dearness
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 508 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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