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Military service
Service number:
24113
Age:
29
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
13th Bn. No. 1 Coy.
Birth:
April 24, 1886
Pinner, Middx, England
Death:
April 27, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
LXVI. D. 11.
Additional information
Youngest son of Robert Curwen, A.R.I.B.A., and Ann Constance Curwen.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Francis Gilbert Curwen
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph of July 5, 1915. Image taken from web address of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11720689/Daily-Telegraph-July-5-1915.html -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Crossley to Cyrs. Microform Sequence 25; Volume Number 31829_B016734. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 169. Page 767 of 890. Originally buried in Staden German Cemetery, which contained the graves of 14 soldiers from the United Kingdom and 10 from Canada who fell in 1915-1917. Following the Armistice, the bodies of all of these soldiers were exhumed and re-interred in TYNE COT CEMETERY, Belgium.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Francis Gilbert Curwen
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Francis Gilbert Curwen
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Francis Gilbert Curwen
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Francis Gilbert Curwen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 11 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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