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Military service
Service number:
55201
Age:
36
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
"A" Coy. 19th Bn.
Birth:
May 8, 1886
Death:
November 28, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. B. 17.
Additional information
Son of John and Mary Finnie, of Salem, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William John Finnie
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Photo of William John Finnie
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
The following group portrait of No. 2 Section, B Company, 19th Battalion C.E.F. appeared in the Toronto Star on January 19th, 1915. Pte. William John Finnie is the third man from the left in the back row. Finnie was born in Elora, Ontario, and enlisted in Toronto on November 10th, 1914. -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press December 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private William John Finnie
Digital gallery of
Private William John Finnie
Digital gallery of
Private William John Finnie
Digital gallery of
Private William John Finnie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 14 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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