Military service
Burial/memorial information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Statham, of 656, Ontario St., Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Corporal William Percival Statham
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Percival Statham
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Percival Statham
Photo of a young William "Pat" Statham taken from a newspaper photo titled "St. Simon's Junior Lacross Team Champions of The Boys Union League 1907". This photo was published by the Toronto Evening Telegram. (From donor's collection)
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Percival Statham
Photo of Corporal William Percival Statham as a member of the 26th Battalion (New Brunswick) Battalion. From donor's collection.
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Percival Statham
Baby photo of William Percival Statham, son of Charlette Statham, 143 Bleeker St. Toronto. Date of photo not known. William Percival was born on December 23, 1893. (From donors collection).
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Percival Statham
St. Simon's Junior Hockey Team, Champions of the Anglican League, Toronto, 1909. William Percival Statham is standing middle back row. (Of interest, Ardagh Coe the goal tender, seated middle front row was killed in action on May 1, 1915 at Ypres with the 15th Battalion). From Donors collection.
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Percival Statham
Toronto City newspaper clipping (original) which shows "Pat" Statham as Killed in Action. November 1917.
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Percival Statham
The service medals: British War and Victory medals, and Canadian Memorial Cross awarded to the family of William Percival Statham (from donors collection)
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Percival Statham
The complete collection of medals and memorials of William Percival Statham. Note the very personal family carved mount/frame for the Memorial Death Plaque with 26th Battalion cap badge attached.
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Percival Statham
Detail of the Memorial Plaque and 26th Battalion badge.
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Percival Statham
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Percival Statham
From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Percival Statham
From the Toronto Telegram January 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Image gallery
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From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Photo of a young William "Pat" Statham taken from a newspaper photo titled "St. Simon's Junior Lacross Team Champions of The Boys Union League 1907". This photo was published by the Toronto Evening Telegram. (From donor's collection)
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Photo of Corporal William Percival Statham as a member of the 26th Battalion (New Brunswick) Battalion. From donor's collection.
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Baby photo of William Percival Statham, son of Charlette Statham, 143 Bleeker St. Toronto. Date of photo not known. William Percival was born on December 23, 1893. (From donors collection).
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St. Simon's Junior Hockey Team, Champions of the Anglican League, Toronto, 1909. William Percival Statham is standing middle back row. (Of interest, Ardagh Coe the goal tender, seated middle front row was killed in action on May 1, 1915 at Ypres with the 15th Battalion). From Donors collection.
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Toronto City newspaper clipping (original) which shows "Pat" Statham as Killed in Action. November 1917.
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The service medals: British War and Victory medals, and Canadian Memorial Cross awarded to the family of William Percival Statham (from donors collection)
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The complete collection of medals and memorials of William Percival Statham. Note the very personal family carved mount/frame for the Memorial Death Plaque with 26th Battalion cap badge attached.
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Detail of the Memorial Plaque and 26th Battalion badge.
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram January 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 331 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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