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Military service
Service number:
862839
Age:
22
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
1st Tramway Coy.
Birth:
April 29, 1896
Glasgow, Scotland
Death:
August 20, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. C. 7.
Additional information
Husband of Mrs. Isabella McComb, Toronto, Ontario (Remarried widow). Brother of Johanne Wynne, Merriton, Ontario
Additional citations
Victory Medal, British War Medal.
Digital gallery of Sapper William Davidson
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Newspaper Clipping
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Dack to Dabate. Microform Sequence 26; Volume Number 31829_B016735. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 170. Page 729 of 1140. He was buried in Caix (Old) British Cemetery located 8 ¼ miles North East of Moreuil. After the Armistice his body, and those of 119 other soldiers who fell in August 1918 who were buried there, were exhumed and re-interred in Caix British Cemetery (called at first Caix New British Cemetery). -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Davidson
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Davidson
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Davidson
Digital gallery of
Sapper William Davidson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 394 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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