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Military service
Age:
41
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Death:
August 10, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. C. 65.
Additional information
Son of John and Frances Henrietta Whitlow, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Husband of Elizabeth Mathilde Whitlow (nee Durham), of Usk, Skeena River, British Columbia.
Served in the South African Campaign (Mentioned in Despatches).
Digital gallery of Captain Francis Milthorp Whitlow
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Memorial
War Memorial, Fernie and District, British Columbia. Dedicated by Lord Byng on May 24th, 1922. Inscribed: ERECTED TO PERPETUATE OUR HONOURED DEAD AND THOSE WHO CARRIED ON IN THE GREAT WAR FROM FERNIE B.C. AND DISTRICT. -
Inscription
Detail of statue and names listed on the War Memorial for Fernie and District, British Columbia. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield of England -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of October 12, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y267uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 522 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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