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Military service
Service number:
145662
Age:
39
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
72nd Bn.
Birth:
July 30, 1878
Death:
August 15, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of the late Charles Elson and husband of the late Roslyn Elson.
Digital gallery of Private William Elson
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of William Elson
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919.
Digital gallery of
Private William Elson
Digital gallery of
Private William Elson
Digital gallery of
Private William Elson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 234 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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