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Military service
Service number:
67117
Age:
30
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Division:
25th Bn.
Birth:
February 3, 1886
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Enlistment:
November 9, 1914
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
June 8, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Abraham and Elizabeth Richards; husband of Jean M. C. Harper (formerly Richards), of Sydney, Nova Scotia. Brother of Mrs. George Cooper.
Digital gallery of Private William Richards
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private William Richards
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 154 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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