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Military service
Service number:
166131
Age:
23
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Pioneers
Division:
2nd Pioneer Battalion.
Birth:
September 22, 1892
Death:
April 5, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 32
Additional information
Son of William Cornelius Wells, of 10, Portman Rd., Norbiton, Surrey, England, and the late Catherine May Wells.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal William Cornelius Wells
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lance Corporal William Cornelius Wells
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Cornelius Wells
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Cornelius Wells
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 180 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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