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Military service
Service number:
552897
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regt.)
Birth:
October 17, 1896
Death:
October 21, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of Margaret Whitelaw (formerly Thomson), of 1135, 8th St. East, Calgary, Alberta, and the late Alexander Thomson.
Digital gallery of Private William Thomson
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private William Thomson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 339 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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