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Military service
Service number:
931330
Age:
37
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
August 31, 1880
Enlistment:
Nelson, British Columbia
Death:
November 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Joseph Fletcher Breckon, of Ontario Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario; husband of Mary Jane Breckon, of Waterdown, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William John Breckon
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Waterdown Memorial Hall
View of the Waterdown Memorial Hall (1922) and the War Memorial Plaques. The street address is 317 Dundas Street, Waterdown, ON. -
Commemorative Plaque
Details of names on the Waterdown Ontario WWI Memorial Plaque. The central column represents the war dead and the other names are from the Roll of Service. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private William John Breckon
Digital gallery of
Private William John Breckon
Digital gallery of
Private William John Breckon
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 206 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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