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Military service
Service number:
504811
Age:
38
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
12th Bn.
Birth:
April 25, 1880
Death:
September 27, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. B. 1.
Additional information
Son of Olaf and Anna Peterson; husband of Hilda Peterson, of 1836, Grant St., Vancouver.
Digital gallery of Corporal William Peterson
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My maternal Great Grandfather, William Peterson, born 25 Apr 1880 in Sweden, died in battle on 27 Sep 1918. My maternal Great Grandfather enlisted on 29 Feb 1916 (leap day!), he left at home a wife and six children in Vancouver, BC. Before he died, his youngest daughter at the age of 2 years 5 months had died from the Spanish influenza while he was overseas. His mother also passed away while he was away. His wife, Hilda Bjork Johnson Peterson, survived him and raised the surviving five children. Hilda Peterson lived to the age of 90 years. LEST WE NOT FORGET!! -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province October 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Corporal William Peterson
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Corporal William Peterson
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Commemorated on:
Page 484 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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