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Military service
Service number:
17197
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
November 20, 1890
Enlistment:
New Westminister, British Columbia
Death:
April 24, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Mr. W. H. Babcock, of Dresden, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Lester Babcock
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Babb to Barjarow. Microform Sequence 5; Volume Number 31829_B016715. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 149. Page 15 of 1072. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press September 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private William Lester Babcock
Digital gallery of
Private William Lester Babcock
Digital gallery of
Private William Lester Babcock
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 4 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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