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Military service
Service number:
139175
Age:
39
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
10th Bn.
Birth:
August 28, 1877
Death:
April 28, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private William Alfred Samson
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Press Clipping
8th platoon 75th Bn. From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Press Clipping
This article includes a reference to Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Gustavus Beckett, 75th Battalion, who died March 1st, 1917. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM ALFRED SAMSON
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Alfred Samson
Digital gallery of
Private William Alfred Samson
Digital gallery of
Private William Alfred Samson
Digital gallery of
Private William Alfred Samson
Digital gallery of
Private William Alfred Samson
Digital gallery of
Private William Alfred Samson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 321 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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