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Military service
Service number:
255286
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regt.)
Birth:
October 22, 1886
Kintore, Scotland
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. B. 13.
Additional information
Son of John and Helen Douglas, of Moss of Letter, Dunecht, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Private William Wilson Douglas
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Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the New Irish Farm Cemetery, just outside the town of Ieper (Ypres), Belgium. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Epitaph
Epitaph: 'Gone but not forgotten' -
Cemetery
The New Irish Farm Cemetery, near the town of Ieper (Ypres), Belgium. (J. Stephens) -
Entrance
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Cemetery
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Cross of Sacrifice
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Grave marker
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 539 of 1076. His grave was located East of Piclnlehaube House, 2 ½ miles North East of Ypres. After the Armistice, his body was exhumed and buried in NEW IRISH FARM CEMETERY.
Digital gallery of
Private William Wilson Douglas
Digital gallery of
Private William Wilson Douglas
Digital gallery of
Private William Wilson Douglas
Digital gallery of
Private William Wilson Douglas
Digital gallery of
Private William Wilson Douglas
Digital gallery of
Private William Wilson Douglas
Digital gallery of
Private William Wilson Douglas
Digital gallery of
Private William Wilson Douglas
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 230 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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