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Military service
Service number:
3033392
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
May 14, 1896
Death:
September 29, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
B. 34.
Additional information
Son of Peter and Annie Heron, of Scarborough Junction, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Heron
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Mill Switch Cross
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Mill Switch Cemetery
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Gravemarker
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Newspaper Clipping
this article appeared in the ORILLIA TIMES, Thurs. Feb. 20,1919. It is an account of Pte. Herring's day when his comrade Pte. Heron died. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private William Heron
Digital gallery of
Private William Heron
Digital gallery of
Private William Heron
Digital gallery of
Private William Heron
Digital gallery of
Private William Heron
Digital gallery of
Private William Heron
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 428 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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