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Military service
Service number:
784150
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
May 25, 1890
Death:
August 24, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. G. 4.
Additional information
Son of Martha Shoesmith, of The Oaks, Hilders Lane, Edenbridge, Kent.
Digital gallery of Private William Henry Shoesmith
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Grave Marker
Grave marker photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England. -
Cemetery
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Dud Corner British Cemetery
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Circumstances of death registers
Private William Henry Shoesmith -
Grave Marker
784150 PRIVATE W.H. SHOESMITH 5th CAN. MOUNTED RIFLES 24th August 1917 Age 27 Thy World is True Thy Will is Just To Thee We Leave Him Lord In Trust.
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Private William Henry Shoesmith
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Private William Henry Shoesmith
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Private William Henry Shoesmith
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Private William Henry Shoesmith
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Private William Henry Shoesmith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 325 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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DUD CORNER CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Loos is a village 5 kilometres north-west of Lens. DUD CORNER CEMETERY is west of the village to the north-east of the N43 Lens-Bethune road.
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