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Military service
Service number:
769109
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Pioneers
Division:
124th BN
Birth:
May 30, 1896
Renfrew, Ontario
Enlistment:
December 23, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 10, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of George Smith of Renfrew, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Walter William Smith
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Inscription
Inscription on the memorial at Hollybrook Cemetery, Southampton UK showing Walter Smith's name. -
Cross of Sacrifice
Cross of Sacrifice at Hollybrook Cemetery, Southampton UK -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Renfrew Mercury for Friday,25 August 1916, page 1. [Note correction to middle name, also verified in his attestation papers for service no. 769109 as "Walter William Smith"] -
Photo of WALTER WILLIAM SMITH
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Walter William Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Walter William Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Walter William Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Walter William Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Walter William Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Walter William Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Walter William Smith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 165 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL Hampshire, United Kingdom
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