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Military service
Service number:
9268
Age:
35
Rank:
Company Quarter Master Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
September 7, 1885
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 5, 1921
Burlington, Ontario
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Range 12. Sec. 8. Lot 40. Gr. 10.
Additional information
Husband of Jean Addy, of 7, Wardell St., Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Company Quarter Master Sergeant William James Addy
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William James Addy enlisted at Valcartier Camp, Quebec, on September 22nd, 1914, serving with the First Canadian Contingent. According to his military attestation, he had ten years prior service with Toronto's Queen's Own Rifles. His brothers Edward R. Norman Addy, 135636, and Ralph Wilson Addy, 135642, both enlisted in Toronto on July 22nd, 1915 with the 74th Battalion. Another brother, Thomas Henry Addy, 862056, enlisted in Toronto's 180th (Sportsmen) Battalion on January 28th, 1916. In honoured memory of the Addy family. -
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From the Toronto Star March 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram November 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram November 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram November 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Telegram June 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Company Quarter Master Sergeant William James Addy
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Company Quarter Master Sergeant William James Addy
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant William James Addy
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant William James Addy
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant William James Addy
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant William James Addy
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant William James Addy
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant William James Addy
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant William James Addy
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Commemorated on:
Page 555 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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