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Military service
Service number:
663522
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
21st Bn.
Death:
September 1, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. D. 9A.
Digital gallery of Private William George Roberts
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Memorial
Private Roberts is listed on the Town of Milton "Haltonville Cenotaph", Township of Nassagaweya, Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario. The cenotaph is located at the junction of Guelph Line and 15th Sideroad, north of Highway 401 (GPS Coordinates 43°31'28.26"N 80° 2'11.26"W). This image was taken by Richard Laughton and submitted to the CWGC collection. -
Memorial
The Haltonville Cenotaph contains two (2) names for a soldier with the last name "Roberts". They are William Roberts and Wesley Roberts, both listed as men of the 164th Infantry Battalion that was assembled in the Halton-Peel-Dufferin Counties at the beginning of the war. William Roberts was taken on strength into the 21st Battalion, where he was serving at the time of his death. Extensive research has shown that there was no person known as Wesley Roberts, dead or alive, and that the inscription was an engraving error on the cenotaph at the time of construction. Details are provided on the web site of the Milton Historical Society (http://www.miltonhistoricalsociety.ca/roberts-error/). -
Honour roll
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Private William George Roberts
Digital gallery of
Private William George Roberts
Digital gallery of
Private William George Roberts
Digital gallery of
Private William George Roberts
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 492 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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