Family :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

12 September - 12 October 1918. As the momentum of the British advance continued it was clear that the Hindenburg Line defences offered the greatest threat to further advances. It was highly likely that the magnificently engineered defence system would re-establish the status quo of static trench warfare. However a series of magnificent actions at Havrincourt and Epehy paved the way for dramatic crossings of the Canal du Nord and the St Quentin Canal by early October. Both canals had been integrated into the Hindenburg Line system and their capture effectively broke the defensive capability of the system. Soon afterwards the British were attacking at Cambrai (again) and then by mid October were pursuing the Germans to the River Selle.

Detail :

http://www.mapleleaflegacy.org/show_fullscreen.asp?id=90244 WILLIAM MEMBRY DIFFORD Shown as Lieutenant 8th Battalion Canadian Engineers CHECK Killed in action 3rd October 1918 Age 25 Son of S G and Annie Difford of 42 Lansdown rd Swindon England II B11 Buried and commemorated in Canada Cemetery Tilloy Les Cambrai, Nord, France Killed whilst flying in RE8 D4905, with 2/Lieut E M Patterson, who was wounded (David Barnes)

Masonic :

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley