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Military service
Service number:
1042061
Age:
23
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
240th Bn.
Birth:
March 22, 1896
Death:
March 3, 1917
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Son of Jennie Drysdale (formerly Young), of Renfrew, and the late Alexander Young, husband of Edna Young, of Bristol, P.Q.
Digital gallery of Corporal William John Gilbert Young
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Corporal William John Gilbert Young
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 355 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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RENFREW (THOMPSONVILLE) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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