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Military service
Service number:
316884
Age:
24
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
6th Bde.
Birth:
November 29, 1893
Death:
August 22, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. C. 34.
Additional information
Son of James Melvin Donaldson, of 7, Maybank Villas, Corstorphine, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Gunner William Duncan Donaldson
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Roll of Honour Book
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Article
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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 99 of 1076. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Gunner William Duncan Donaldson
Digital gallery of
Gunner William Duncan Donaldson
Digital gallery of
Gunner William Duncan Donaldson
Digital gallery of
Gunner William Duncan Donaldson
Digital gallery of
Gunner William Duncan Donaldson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 229 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FOSSE No. 10 COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Sains-en-Gohelle is a mining village 20 kilometres north of Arras on the road to Bethune. Fosse No.10 is a pithead and group of miners' houses south of the village.
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