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Private William Francis Byde

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Military service

Service number: 424637
Age: 35
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Division: 45th Bn.
Birth: July 6, 1885 Kingston-on-Thames, England
Enlistment: May 22, 1915 Manitoba
Death: November 10, 1920

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Mil. 264.
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Son of Mrs. Louise Randall, of Surrey, England. Brother of Edith Byde. He was single and a farmer by trade. He had 4 years previous service with the Manitoba Rangers. He was discharged on 9 January 1919 after four unsuccessful attempts to repair a ventral hernia.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 605 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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