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Military service
Service number:
300370
Age:
24
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Artillery
Division:
Pool
Birth:
January 23, 1894
West Shefford
Death:
August 12, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. AA. 9.
Additional information
Son of Louis and Margaret Griggs.
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Gunner William Henry Griggs
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 420 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
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