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Wilfred Edwin WILLIS (1898-1965)
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 Trade listed as Baker. DOB 6-4-98 (Ontario Birth Registry), born Fordwich. 5 foot 6 1/2 inches. Blue eyes, red hair. Baptist. NOK George Willis, father. Ida Willis, mother. Enlisted Mount Forest 8-11-15 (age 18 years 7 months). 153rd Battalion Nominal Roll 5-2-16 incomplete, missing names from letter T to letter Z. On 153rd Nominal Rolls as published Guelph Mercury 10-6-16 and 1-12-16. On 153rd Battalion Sailing List 29-4-17. Arrived Liverpool 7-5-17. Assigned 25th Reserve for Training & Administration. Taken on Strength Western Ontario Regiment 20-3-18. Did not proceed overseas until after cessation of hostilities. Returned home for discharge aboard SS Mauretania 6-6-19, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Demobilized Toronto 8-6-19. Ontario Marriage Registry 012443) married 12-9-22 to Florence Grace Thompson at Brussels, Huron County. Died 1965, buried Brussels Cemetery, Brussels. Photo courtesy Find a Grave.
File: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 10422 - 32, courtesy Library & Archives Canada.
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