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Military service
Service number:
681139
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
58th Bn.
Birth:
September 19, 1892
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 8, 1916
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Husband of Jennie O'Leary of Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private William Joseph O'Leary
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
Pte. William Joseph O'Leary enlisted in the C.E.F. in Toronto on February 8th, 1916. Pte. Arthur Leo Lawrence, 681165, 75th Battalion C.E.F., was killed March 3, 1917. Thomas Joseph Lawrence, 681164, enlisted in Toronto on February 11th, 1916. In honoured memory. -
Inscription on Menin Gate Memorial
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Private William O'Leary (681139), of 21 Regent street, formerly of 167 DeGrassi street, is reported "presumed death." He is one of a family of five to enlist. His brother, John, is in the navy, and his brothers-in-law, Pte. Arthur Lawrence (who died of wounds a year ago) and Pte. Jack McKnight and Pte. Thomas Lawrence, also went overseas. He leaves a widow and two children. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Joseph O'Leary
Digital gallery of
Private William Joseph O'Leary
Digital gallery of
Private William Joseph O'Leary
Digital gallery of
Private William Joseph O'Leary
Digital gallery of
Private William Joseph O'Leary
Digital gallery of
Private William Joseph O'Leary
Digital gallery of
Private William Joseph O'Leary
Digital gallery of
Private William Joseph O'Leary
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 303 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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