Military service
Service number:
6860
Age:
21
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
May 24, 1894
Southampton, Ontario
Death:
June 10, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. I. 28.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tranter, of Southampton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sergeant William Victor Tranter
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Photo of William Tranter
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Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Southampton Cenotaph
William Victor Tranter is remembered on the Southampton Cenotaph. This war memorial includes plaques with the names of men from World Wars 1 & 2. The WWI list is inscribed: "In grateful remembrance of the men of Southampton who fought and died in the Great War". Southampton is in Bruce County, Ontario and is the oldest port on the Bruce Coast. This photograph was taken by Mr. Clive Freeman in the summer of 2002. -
Cemetery
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Grave Marker
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Victor Tranter
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Victor Tranter
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Victor Tranter
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Victor Tranter
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Victor Tranter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 39 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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