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Military service
Service number:
201943
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Bn.
Death:
March 11, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXII. A. 3.
Digital gallery of Private Edward Lowry Willis
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial Album
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial Album
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Grave Marker
Private Willis' name is engraved on his parents' stone in Wilfrid (Hart) Cemetery, Brock Twp., west of Cannington, Ontario. Below is the transcription on the stone, his parents were David D. Willis and Minnie Robinson WILLIS David D. Willis died Jan 12, 1928 in his 63rd year Beloved husband of Minnie Robinson and his wife Mary Jane Robinson 1865 - 1956 Private Edward L. Willis 38th Inf. C.E.F. Killed in Action at Etaples 1917 in his 21st year Charles Henry Willis died Dec. 30, 1908 in his 5th year AT REST
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Lowry Willis
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Lowry Willis
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Lowry Willis
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Lowry Willis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 350 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.
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