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Military service
Service number:
772140
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
January 10, 1897
Death:
October 18, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
In North-West corner.
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Jane E. English, of Paris, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William English
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Paris War Memorial
Paris Ontario War Memorial. An unveiling and dedication ceremony was conducted at the memorial on November 11th, 1930. The memorial was unveiled by Mrs. R. Baldwin, mother of Nursing Sister Dorothy Baldwin. A dedicatory address was made by Lt.-Col. the Ven. Archdeacon F. G. Scott, D.S.O. (Canon Scott). Bands of the 10th Brant Dragoons and the 1st Dufferin Rifles assisted in the service. The memorial was designed and built by the Hunter Granite Works, Simcoe, Ontario. It is inscribed: 1914 - 1918 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF PARIS WHO FELL AND IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR. -
Roll of Honour
This Roll of Honour appeared in the pamphlet distributed at the Paris Ontario War Memorial's unveiling and dedication ceremony on November 11th, 1930. -
Grave Marker
Photo of headstone for Private William English in the PECQUENCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY ; Nord, France -
Photo of William English
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Digital gallery of
Private William English
Digital gallery of
Private William English
Digital gallery of
Private William English
Digital gallery of
Private William English
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 404 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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PECQUENCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY Nord, France
Pecquencourt is a village in the Department of Nord, some 13 kilometres east-north-east of Douai on the N455. The cemetery is situated in rue Jean Jaures, and the Commonwealth graves are located on the right hand side of the centre aisle, a short distance before the crucifix in the centre of the cemetery.
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