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Military service
Service number:
28714
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
October 6, 1894
Beckenham, Kent, England
Enlistment:
September 23, 1914
Valcartier
Death:
April 23, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of W.H. Bridges of Victoria, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private William Henry Bridges
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of June 14, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y159uvic#mode/1up. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of William Henry Bridges
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Henry Bridges
Digital gallery of
Private William Henry Bridges
Digital gallery of
Private William Henry Bridges
Digital gallery of
Private William Henry Bridges
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 6 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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