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Military service
Service number:
H/6815
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
June 8, 1914
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment:
February 1, 1940
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
January 25, 1943
Sham Shui Po Hospital, Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VIII. F. 10.
Additional information
Son of Edward and Sarah Ellen Sumner, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Private William John Sumner
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Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of WILLIAM JOHN SUMNER
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private William John Sumner
Digital gallery of
Private William John Sumner
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 218 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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