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Military service
Service number:
B/41726
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
February 8, 1922
Tayport, Fifeshire, Scotland
Enlistment:
June 12, 1942
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
February 19, 1945
Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. B. 10.
Additional information
Son of William and Jessie Rankine of Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Auld Rankine
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Photo of William Auld Rankine
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Grave marker
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Telegram
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Telegram
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Niagara Falls Evening Review November 14th 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Auld Rankine
Digital gallery of
Private William Auld Rankine
Digital gallery of
Private William Auld Rankine
Digital gallery of
Private William Auld Rankine
Digital gallery of
Private William Auld Rankine
Digital gallery of
Private William Auld Rankine
Digital gallery of
Private William Auld Rankine
Digital gallery of
Private William Auld Rankine
Digital gallery of
Private William Auld Rankine
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 557 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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