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Military service
Service number:
805607
Age:
44
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
136th Bn.
Birth:
April 4, 1872
County of Malton, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 21, 1916
Ontario
Death:
March 19, 1917
Toronto General Hospital, Ontario
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Lot 153.
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Jane Wilson, of Hornby, Ontario. Husband of Mary Ann Wilson, of Port Hope, Ontario.
Private Wilson was beyond military age and therefore his spirit was all the more commendable for undertaking a duty which he did not necessarily fall upon him.
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Private Richard Bloomfield Wilson
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 351 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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