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REF Name................................................. Regimental number(s)
ALBERT HUGH WINGRAVE ,
108636
Box 10495 - 6
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b. 11 Jan 1888 Luton Beds
Father Sidney Wingrove, Beds ENG
ALBERT EDWARD WINGROVE , ........... 3081255
Box:
10495 - 7
b. 23 August 1893 Newport Vermont USA
Father George Wingrove, Sherbrooke PQ
ARTHUR JOHN WINGROVE .................... 669469
Box:
10495 - 8
A J WINGROVE
Private
669469 124th Canadian Pioneer Battalion., Canadian Pioneers
who died on Tuesday 6 November 1917
WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Also See Eight
Brothers Fight the Hun
CLARENCE WINGROVE ........................
277229
Box:
10495 - 9
b. 1 Jan 1895 Otterville ON
Father Wilberforce Wingrove,
Otterville ON
EDWARD THOMAS WINGROVE , ............. 690636
Box: 10495
- 10
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3 4
b. 1 Jun 1883 High Wycombe Bucks ENG
Wife Hattie, 18 Harrison Ave Hamilton, ON
GEORGE ALEXANDER WINGROVE ..... 797139
. Box: 10495 -
11
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b. 15 Nov 1877 Walsingham ON
Wife Amy, Port Rowan ON
HOWARD WINGROVE , .............................302302
Box: 10495 - 12
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b. 1 Oct 1894 Walsingham ON
Mother Jane Wingrove Walsingham
Centre
JOHN JAMES WINGROVE ,....................
504879
Box: 10495 - 13
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b. 17 Jun 1875 Bath England
Wife - Port Coquitlam BC
VERNON JAMES WINGROVE , ................845430
Box:
10495 - 14
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b. 2 Feb 1894 Andover ENG Living Sarnia ON
Mother Bertha Wingrove Hanslow Middlesex
ENG
WILLIAM ALFRED WINGROVE , ............ 32923
Box:
10495 - 15
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b. 16 Mar 1889 Newport, Vermont USA
Mother Grace Wingrove Sherbrooke P.
Quebec
WILLIAM ARTHUR WINGROVE , ........... 3310846
Box: 10495
- 16
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b. 6 Oct 1896 Burford ON
Father Eli Wingrove
WILLIAM FREDERICK WINGROVE , .....669470
Box: 10495 -
17
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b. 20 Dec 1881 Northampton ENG
Wife Nellie Toronto ON
EIGHT SONS AT WAR, 1 DEAD, 2 WOUNDED
Pte William Wingrove is the Third Causality in One Family
East Toronto Sept 6- Mrs. William Fred Wingrove
of 16 Diver Street has been officially notified by the military authorities that
her husband Pte Wingrove has been wounded in the head the right foot and has
been admitted to the General Hospital in France.
The family live in a humble house on the outskirts of the city limits. 'My
husband is thirty years of age.' remarked Mrs. Wingrove, 'and he is the oldest
of eight sons of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wingrove of Northampton, England. Every one
of the boys s fighting for hte King. One has paid the supreme sacrifice since
enlisting from Canada, that is Pte. A Wingrove; another
is a prisoner in Germany, Pte George Wingrove and now word has come that
my husband is lying in the hospital.
The family has been in Canada 14 years. Pts Wm Wingrove enlisted two years ago
this fall with the 166th Regiment. He was a bricklayer by trade. He was wounded
for the first time on August 26
[Toronto Star, Sept 6, 1918]
Photographs of the Wingrove Brothers published in the Toronto Star on September 9, 1918.
EIGHT WINGROVE BROTHERS FIGHTING THE HUNS
This group shows seven of the eight sons of the Wingrove family, all soldiers of
the King. Reading from left to right are Pts Frank
Wingrove, Pts George Wingrove,
now a prisoner in Germany, Pte Arthur killed
in action. Pte Charles, Pte William
of 14 Diver St, recently wounded, Pte Frederick and Pte Owen
Wingrove.
WILLIAM H WINGROVE , ........................79800
Box: 10495 - 18
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William Henry Wingrove
b. 24 Mar 1899 London England
Father William L Wingrove Kensington
ENG
WILLIAM W WINGROVE , .......................80070
Box: 10495 - 19
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William Wooster Wingrove
b. 22 July 1888 Maidenhead ENG
Next of Kin: J Wingrove 6 Grove Rd
Maidenhead Berkshire
Arthur
John Wingrove
In memory of Private A J WINGROVE
who died on November 6, 1917.
Service Number: 669469
Army Regiment: Canadian Pioneers
Unit: 124th Canadian Pioneer Battalion.
Cemetery: WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, ST. JEAN-LES-YPRES, Ieper,
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Commemorated on Page 352
of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
[CLICK HERE FOR AN IMAGE OF THIS PAGE]
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