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Sapper WILLIAM HAYES BETTS

Service Number: 11556
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Engineers

3rd Tunnelling Coy.

Date of Death

Died 25 March 1916

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BERKS CEMETERY EXTENSION

II. D. 47.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Albert William and Margaret Florence Betts, of 97, Park Avenue, Brantford, Ontario. Enlisted Aug., 1914.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

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Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 876
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