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Military service
Service number:
643226
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Bn.
Birth:
July 29, 1896
Enlistment:
Barrie, Ontario
Death:
September 2, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C. 16.
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Margaret Corbett, of Cookstown, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Lorne Corbett
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Newspaper Clipping
Photo found in Scrap book located at Simcoe County Archives in Ontario. -
Memorial Park
Cookstown Memorial Park -
Memorial
Cookstown Cenotaph -
Memorial
Cookstown Cenotaph -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CONNON TO CORBETT. Microform Sequence 22; Volume Number 31829_B016731. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 166. Page 807 of 818. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Barrie Examiner c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Barrie Examiner c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Lorne Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private William Lorne Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private William Lorne Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private William Lorne Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private William Lorne Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private William Lorne Corbett
Digital gallery of
Private William Lorne Corbett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 389 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURY MILL BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Dury is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 1 kilometre north of the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai (D939). Approximately 16 kilometres from Arras travelling towards Cambrai on the D939 is the Canadian Forces Memorial at Dury. 300 metres after the Memorial the Cemetery is signposted to the left towards Dury village. 200 metres from the D939 the cemetery is signposted to the left. It is located in open fields, and is approached along an unsurfaced track about 500 metres long.
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