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Military service
Service number:
657921
Age:
30
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
2nd Pontoon Bridging and Transport
Birth:
December 3, 1888
Death:
January 23, 1919
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. 9. 11.
Digital gallery of Sapper William Victor Demery
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 607 of 1036. Sapper Demery apparently died while a prisoner of war and was buried in Poppelladorfer Friendhof, Bonn, Germany. The bodies of 55 Commonwealth casualties, 50 of which were prisoners of war, brought back from Germany by the Canadian Corps in April 1919 and reburied in BRUSSELS TOWN CEMETERY.
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Sapper William Victor Demery
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 532 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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