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Military service
Service number:
C/92100
Age:
32
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
July 12, 1912
Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 24, 1940
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
April 4, 1945
Netherlands
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XII. F. 14.
Additional information
Son of Harold Esmond and Emily Frances Hemming. Husband of Mary Violet Lillian and father of Robert Louis Hemming, of Westboro, Ontario.
Village of Zutphen honours fallen Canadian William Hemming with a street name.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Corporal William Leslie Hemming
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Newspaper Clipping
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Photo of William Leslie Hemming
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Grave Marker
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Newspaper Clipping
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Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Leslie Hemming
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Leslie Hemming
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Leslie Hemming
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Leslie Hemming
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Leslie Hemming
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Leslie Hemming
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 523 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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