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Military service
Service number:
76200
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
29th Bn.
Birth:
January 26, 1890
Death:
April 30, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
J. 22.
Additional information
Son of Catherine Gillies, of The Avenue, Craigendoran, Helensburgh, Scotland, and the late Capt. Malcolm Gillies.
Digital gallery of Private William Gillies
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Grave Marker
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Dickebushe Cemetery's Entrance
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Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province May 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private William Gillies
Digital gallery of
Private William Gillies
Digital gallery of
Private William Gillies
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 91 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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