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Military service
Service number:
814371
Age:
36
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
9th Coy.
Birth:
February 28, 1881
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 32
Additional information
Son of the late William and Elizabeth Margaret Salter, of Campbellford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William John Salter
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War Memorial
139th Battalion (Northumberland County) War Memorial plaque, 1919. 130 names of men who originally enlisted with this Ontario unit. On display at the Victoria Hall, 55 King Street West, Cobourg, Ontario. Also shown - Cobourg (Ontario) War Memorial at Victoria Park. -
Photo of WILLIAM JOHN SALTER
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of WILLIAM JOHN SALTER
Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private William John Salter
Digital gallery of
Private William John Salter
Digital gallery of
Private William John Salter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 321 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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