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Military service
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Border Regiment
Division:
3rd Bn.
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 3, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Wilfred Francis James Lait
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Roll of Honour
Second Lieutenant W. F. J. Lait's name was included on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. Source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included the Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses. -
Name on the Roll of Honour
Detail of Second Lieutenant W. F. J. Lait's name on the Merchants Bank of Canada 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. -
Photo of Wilfrid Lait
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of August 19, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y217uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province August 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Wilfred Francis James Lait
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Wilfred Francis James Lait
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Wilfred Francis James Lait
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Wilfred Francis James Lait
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Wilfred Francis James Lait
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Wilfred Francis James Lait
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Wilfred Francis James Lait
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 578 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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