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Private WILLIAM JAMES RYAN

Service Number: 415415
Regiment & Unit/Ship

5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion

Date of Death

Died 26 April 1916

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MAPLE COPSE CEMETERY

Sp. Mem. B. 20.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of James and Margaret Ryan, of Halifax, Nova Scotia; husband of Annie Arnell (formerly Ryan), of Carleton's Corner, Bridgetown, Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia.
  • Personal Inscription THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
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Buried or commemorated at

MAPLE COPSE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 309
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