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Military service
Service number:
140200
Age:
37
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
75th Bn.
Birth:
September 22, 1880
Death:
November 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of William and Anna Thomas, of 5, Cartway, Bridgnorth, Salop, England; husband of Emma Jane Thomas, of Aurora, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Thomas
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Newspaper Clipping
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War Memorial
William Thomas is listed on a war memorial over looking the River Severn in his home town of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England. -
Inscription
List of 1914-18 War dead on Bridgnorth War Memorial including W Thomas -
Former home of William Thomas
William Thomas lived here at 5 Cartway, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England with his parents William & Hanna Thomas, before emmigrating to Canada -
Newspaper Clipping 2
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM THOMAS
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Thomas
Digital gallery of
Private William Thomas
Digital gallery of
Private William Thomas
Digital gallery of
Private William Thomas
Digital gallery of
Private William Thomas
Digital gallery of
Private William Thomas
Digital gallery of
Private William Thomas
Digital gallery of
Private William Thomas
Digital gallery of
Private William Thomas
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 172 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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