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Military service
Service number:
B/11232
Age:
32
Rank:
Lance Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Artillery
Division:
12 Field Regt.
Birth:
November 15, 1911
Manchester, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
June 15, 1940
Brantford, Ontario
Death:
July 5, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. G. 3.
Additional information
Son of Eli and Mary Mercer. Husband of Ida Eade Mercer, of Victoria, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Lance Sergeant William Thomas Mercer
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Album Cover
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Photo of William Mercer
Album of Honour for Brant County World War II 1939-1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
A photograph (2010) of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Cemetery
Entrance - Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of WILLIAM THOMAS MERCER
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant William Thomas Mercer
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant William Thomas Mercer
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant William Thomas Mercer
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant William Thomas Mercer
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant William Thomas Mercer
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant William Thomas Mercer
Digital gallery of
Lance Sergeant William Thomas Mercer
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 393 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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