William Alexander - Military

Military

  • William Alexander (Canadian soldier) (1880–1917), World War I soldier executed for desertion
  • William Melville Alexander (1897–1988), Canadian World War I flying ace
  • William Alexander, Lord Stirling (1726–1783), American Revolutionary War soldier

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