William Gordon Allison

Rank:

Lance Corporal

Regimental number:

772872

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

27 Buffalo Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

27 Buffalo Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Plasterer

Employer:

MacBride Press

Religious denominations:

Presbyterian

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Wounded

BX August 28, 1917

Mrs. Dennis Allison, 10 Burford Street, received word that her son, Private William Gordon Allison of the A.M.C., had been wounded and admitted to No. 4 General Hospital at Camiers on August 18 suffering from gunshot wounds in the head and back. He went overseas with the first overseas battalion of the Dufferin Rifles. Prior to enlisting he was employed at the MacBride Press.

BX September 1, 1917

This morning’s casualty list contains the names of four Brantford men – David Edward Stewart, William Gordon Allison, Edward Groat, Herbert Fisher – all reported wounded. Pte. Groat went overseas with the Haldimand County Battalion. Pte. Allison is a Burford boy, a painter by trade and he went overseas with the first overseas Battalion from the 38th Dufferin Rifles.

BX September 14, 1917

Mrs. Dennis Allison, 10 Burford Street, has received a cheery letter from her son, Pte. William Gordon Allison, late of the first overseas battalion of the Dufferin Rifles, stating that he was at a base hospital in France, and had that morning been operated on, a piece of shrapnel being removed from behind his left ear. The wound, he declares, was a slight one, and he comments that it is fortunate for him that the shrapnel was not moving very speedily at the time that he was hit. “It is nothing to worry about,” he declares. A plank hit his back, but the injury caused by this was not serious.

BX October 9, 1918

Mrs. Dennis Allison, 10 Burford Street, has received word that her son, Lance Corporal William Gordon Allison, has been admitted to the 4th General Hospital at Dannes-Camiers. He received a gunshot wound in the left arm, Sept. 28. This is the second time Cpl. Allison has been wounded. He enlisted in the 125th Battalion.