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Military service
Service number:
228382
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
58th Bn.
Birth:
December 15, 1895
Death:
April 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. B. 16.
Digital gallery of Private William John Searle
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Newspaper Clipping
William John Searle enlisted in Toronto's 201st Battalion C.E.F. on May 3rd, 1916. Searle was born in London England, and was living at 20 Wallace Avenue in Toronto at the time of his enlistment in the C.E.F. This article reports that he had been employed by the Fairbanks Morse Company prior to his enlistment. In honoured memory. -
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM JOHN SEARLE
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private William John Searle
Digital gallery of
Private William John Searle
Digital gallery of
Private William John Searle
Digital gallery of
Private William John Searle
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Commemorated on:
Page 323 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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