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Military service
Service number:
838736
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Division:
147th Bn
Birth:
March 14, 1897
Hull, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
January 22, 1916
Owen Sound, Ontario
Death:
July 31, 1916
Toronto, Ontario
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Son of Mrs. Ada Downes (formerly Lamb), of Hull, England.
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William Henry Lamb, a Barnardo Boy, arrived in Canada 1907, lived with the Carr family in Dundalk. Enlisted in 1916. After the war, he planned to stay in England with his other, Ada Lamb Downes. He died before leaving Canadian soil. -
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Private William Henry Lamb
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Commemorated on:
Page 115 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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