Private Wilfred Laurence Bancroft
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Bancroft,
Wilfred Laurence
Date of birth: 1895-12-23
Place of birth: Cherrywood Ontario Canada
Next of kin: Mrs. Mary Colby (mother,) Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Farming
Occupation (normalized): General Farmer
Religion: Baptist
Date of death:
1917-04-09
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Vimy Memorial, N/A
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 775228
Highest Rank:
Private
(38th Battalion)
Rank detail
- Private, 38th Battalion, Infantry (Army).
- Private (Army). 1915-10-23 ?
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: This soldier was with his Battalion in the Attack at VIMY RIDGE, and had only proceeded about 100 yards from the trench when he was instantly killed.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
this.
CWGC ID: 1564940
LAC ID:
23116
Service file: B0405-S004
Uploader's Notes: Son of Thomas and Mary Bancroft, of Whitby, Ontario.
Uploader's Research notes:
Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948” database
Book of Remembrance gives his middle name as Lawrence, but his Attestation signature appears to support Laurence, and the form was corrected (over-typed) accordingly.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-08-21