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Military service
Service number:
865
Age:
22
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
8th Bn.
Birth:
August 6, 1892
Stoneyford
Enlistment:
September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
April 25, 1915
Ypres, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Robert Joseph and Sarah Jane Lewis, of Laurelvale, Aghalee, Lurgan, Ireland.
Additional citations
1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Digital gallery of Corporal William Lewis
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Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Lewis
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Lewis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 24 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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