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Military service
Service number:
862766
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
July 28, 1889
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 14, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. Q. 11.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Ashford, of 529, Dupont St., Toronto, Ontario; husband of Margaret Ashford, of High St, Pittenweem, Fifeshire, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Private William Robert Ashford
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial Plaque
William Robert Ashford is remembered on this Memorial Plaque. -
Newspaper Clipping
Pte. Ashford enlisted in Toronto on February 29th, 1916 with the 180th (Sportsmen) Battalion. -
Photo of WILLIAM ROBERT ASHFORD
In memory of the employees of the T. Eaton Company that went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Robert Ashford
Digital gallery of
Private William Robert Ashford
Digital gallery of
Private William Robert Ashford
Digital gallery of
Private William Robert Ashford
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 193 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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