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30/08/2016 William was Mentioned in Dispatches.
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10/04/2016 The CWGC record Private W Vance as the son of Joseph H Vance of Drumagarner, Kilrea, County Londonderry.
10/04/2016 Private Vance is commemorated in 1st Presbyterian Church in Kilrea.
10/04/2016 Private Vance is buried in Carnmoney Cemetery, not far from Greenisland, north of Belfast.
10/04/2016 Private William Vance was serving with the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) when he died of pneumonia in hospital in Belfast on 13th April 1919. He was 39 years old.
10/04/2016 William Vance was also a Private with the Machine Gun Corps for a time (Service No 4815).
10/04/2016 William Vance was a Private with the Royal Irish Rifles for a time (Service No 11486).
10/04/2016 William enlisted in 1915.
10/04/2016 The family moved to Drumagarner, Kilrea around 1915.
10/04/2016 William Vance was the son of Joseph H Vance. He was born in Greenisland, Carrickfergus or Ballyclare about 1880.
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