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Military service
Service number:
410882
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Bn.
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
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Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas Searle, of 138, Ivy Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Lywnn Searle
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Newspaper Clipping
Pte. William L. Searle enlisted in the 38 Battalion C.E.F. at Lindsay, Ontario, on May 28, 1915. His brother Maurice Arthur Searle, 769422, enlisted in the 124th Battalion C.E.F. in Toronto, Ontario, on December 28th, 1915. In honoured memory. -
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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)
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Private William Lywnn Searle
Digital gallery of
Private William Lywnn Searle
Digital gallery of
Private William Lywnn Searle
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 323 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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