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Military service
Service number:
140633
Age:
32
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
42nd Bn.
Birth:
July 29, 1885
Portemouth Hants, England
Enlistment:
December 28, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 3, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Alice Newcombe of Toronto.
Digital gallery of Private William Ernest Cordie
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI TO COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 13 of 900. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Ernest Cordie
Digital gallery of
Private William Ernest Cordie
Digital gallery of
Private William Ernest Cordie
Digital gallery of
Private William Ernest Cordie
Digital gallery of
Private William Ernest Cordie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 220 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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