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Military service
Service number:
163913
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
73rd Bn.
Birth:
December 28, 1887
Balteagh, Portadown, Armagh
Enlistment:
September 6, 1915
Niagara, Ontario
Death:
April 16, 1917
Boulogne, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. H. 9A.
Additional information
Son of Margaret and the late Thomas Rea, of Balteagh, Portadown, Co. Armagh, Ireland. Late of Toronto, Canada.
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Cemetery
Wimereux Communal Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Wimereux Communal Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Cross of Sacrifice - Wimereux Communal Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private William Rea
Digital gallery of
Private William Rea
Digital gallery of
Private William Rea
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 313 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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