William Cornelius Kent

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

781449

Unit at enlistment:

128th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

April 9th, 1917

Cemetery:

Douai Communal Cemetery - Nord, France - G.2

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Burford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

Outlook, Saskatchewan

Next of kin address:

Outlook, Saskatchewan

Trade or calling:

Bank clerk

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action

BX May 10, 1917

Word has been received by Mr. C.C. Kent that his grandson, William Cornelius Kent was killed at Vimy ridge on April 9. He was born at Burford and moved to Outlook, Sask., with his parents, some years ago. He was a bank clerk, and enlisted with the 128th Battalion and went overseas, but soon after reaching England joined the machine gun section, and was the first of the Outlook contingent to reach the firing line and the first to be sacrificed.