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Military service
Service number:
405609
Age:
32
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
19th Bn.
Birth:
September 16, 1883
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 20, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot E. Row 4. Grave 17.
Additional information
Son of Benjamin and Abia Clegg, of Yorkshire; husband of Maud Mary Clegg, of 280, Westmoreland Avenue, Toronto, Canada.
Digital gallery of Private William Clegg
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Photo of WILLIAM CLEGG
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
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Grave Marker Inscription
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Calais Southern Cemetery
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Calais Southern Cemetery
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Calais Southern Cemetery
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Calais Southern Cemetery
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Calais Southern Cemetery
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Calais Southern Cemetery
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Photo of William Clegg
Served with the 35th Battalion CEF. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of WILLIAM CLEGG
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM CLEGG
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM CLEGG
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CLEAL TO CONNOLLY. Microform Sequence 21; Volume Number 31829_B016730. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 165. Page 49 of 1384. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Clegg
Digital gallery of
Private William Clegg
Digital gallery of
Private William Clegg
Digital gallery of
Private William Clegg
Digital gallery of
Private William Clegg
Digital gallery of
Private William Clegg
Digital gallery of
Private William Clegg
Digital gallery of
Private William Clegg
Digital gallery of
Private William Clegg
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 68 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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