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Military service
Service number:
158185
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
September 19, 1883
Death:
October 1, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
B. 9.
Additional information
Husband of Myrtle Alice Sinclair (nee Gable), of 127, Greenwood Avenue, Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private William John Sinclair
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was discovered and exhumed at a later date and now rests in a marked grave.May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1916, Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William John Sinclair
Digital gallery of
Private William John Sinclair
Digital gallery of
Private William John Sinclair
Digital gallery of
Private William John Sinclair
Digital gallery of
Private William John Sinclair
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 163 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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