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Military service
Service number:
10753
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
July 29, 1888
Enlistment:
Aurora, Ontario
Death:
April 23, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Digital gallery of Private William Drinkwater
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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 943 of 1076. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
4th Bn casualties on Menin Gate Memorial.
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM DRINKWATER
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Drinkwater
Digital gallery of
Private William Drinkwater
Digital gallery of
Private William Drinkwater
Digital gallery of
Private William Drinkwater
Digital gallery of
Private William Drinkwater
Digital gallery of
Private William Drinkwater
Digital gallery of
Private William Drinkwater
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 12 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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