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Military service
Service number:
8407
Age:
26
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
July 13, 1888
Carlow, England
Enlistment:
September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
April 22, 1915
Ypres, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of the Reverend Watson King Orsmby and Letitia Ormsby; husband of Mary Eleanor Ormsby, of Wimbledon, London, England.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal William George Ormsby
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Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William George Ormsby
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William George Ormsby
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 31 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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