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Private WILLIAM JOHN JAMES GORDON

Service Number: 288271
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

78th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 October 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY

VI. B. 10.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of William and Annie Gordon, of 501, Heatherington Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • Personal Inscription A PRECIOUS ONE FROM US IS GONE A VOICE WE LOVE IS STILLED
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Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1615
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