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Military service
Service number:
16883
Age:
36
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
June 4, 1878
Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
April 26, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Janet Taylor Drummond, of Perth, Scotland, and David Drummond.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal William Drummond
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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 1031 of 1076. No record of burial. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Daily Colonist of May 30, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y147uvic#mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Drummond
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Drummond
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Drummond
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Drummond
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Drummond
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 12 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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