Regimental Number: 63452
Rank: Corporal
Branch: 13th Battalion
William was born in Walkerton, Ontario on January 4, 1886. In 1913, he came to the South Peace and filed on a homestead at SE 20-78-15-W6. William suffered from severe gunshot wounds to his thigh in May of 1915. He died of wounds on September 4, 1916 at the South Midland Casualty Clearing Station, located at Vecquemont. William is buried in the Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, and his grave marker reads “Greater love hath no man.”