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Military service
Service number:
79537
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
31st Bn.
Birth:
September 17, 1892
Death:
October 13, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
K. 48.
Additional information
Son of George and Elizabeth McCleary, of Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private William McCleary
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Keith Boswell, England -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM MCCLEARY
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Group Photo
William McCleary with his father George McCleary, circa 1914. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William McCleary
Digital gallery of
Private William McCleary
Digital gallery of
Private William McCleary
Digital gallery of
Private William McCleary
Digital gallery of
Private William McCleary
Digital gallery of
Private William McCleary
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 25 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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