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Military service
Service number:
129962
Age:
35
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
72nd Bn.
Birth:
January 9, 1881
Newark-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
October 7, 1915
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
October 24, 1916
Contay, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. D. 4.
Additional information
Son of Dr. Walter Francis and Rosina Reckitt, of Wainfleet, Lincs., England; husband of Rebecca Reckitt, of "Ingledene," 80, Pulteney Rd., South Woodford, Essex, England.
Digital gallery of Private Walter Hugh Reckitt
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Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph of October 24, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214901/Daily-Telegraph-October-24-1917.html -
Photo of Walter Hugh Reckitt
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Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Walter Hugh Reckitt
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Hugh Reckitt
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Hugh Reckitt
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 152 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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