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Private WILLIAM JOHN BALL

Service Number: 424540
Regiment & Unit/Ship

1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion

Date of Death

Died 12 August 1916

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM)

VI. K. 6.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Mary Ball, of London, England; husband of Helen Amy Ball, of Carman, Manitoba.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM
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Buried or commemorated at

RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM)
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2463
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