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Soldier Information Cards - World War One
Transcription
Ploethner, William Carl
Sergeant.
Enlisted December 1915 with 128th Battalion (Moose Jaw's Own) and transferred to 50th Battalion in France.
Lutheran.
Born in Grey Co. Jan. 17, 1891; educated at Preston Public School and Galt Collegiate. At twenty years he took a homestead in Saskatchewan. He married Josephine Howard of Moose Jaw and has one child.
He was accidently killed in England on June 20, 1918 by a motor car when stationed at Cliburn Camp near Penrith.
He went to France Dec. 13, 1916, took part in Vimy Ridge also eight bayonet fights and was wounded at Lens in the beginning of June 1917. He was twenty seven years of age when he died and his widow lives in Moose Jaw.
Margaret Sohrt (cousin). Preston, Ont.