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Military service
Service number:
285094
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
March 26, 1890
Death:
September 3, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Robert Murray Herod and Martha Jane Herod, of 182, Queen's Avenue, Mimico Beach, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Samuel Herod
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Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of William Samuel Herod
Caption (pg. 381): MEN OF PEEL KILLED DURING THE GREAT WAR. Author - William Perkins Bull. "From Brock to Currie: the military development and exploits of Canadians in general and of the men of Peel in particular, 1791 to 1930." Toronto, 1935. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Samuel Herod
Digital gallery of
Private William Samuel Herod
Digital gallery of
Private William Samuel Herod
Digital gallery of
Private William Samuel Herod
Digital gallery of
Private William Samuel Herod
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 428 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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