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Digital gallery of Private Frank Cornelius Peck
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cornelius Peck
FRANK CORNELIUS PECK was born in England 10th of August 1895. The Scottish Renfrewshire local news paper, the Barrhead news on April 20th 1917 Deaths section gives :- Pte Frank C Peck of Canadians husband of Mary Anderson who resided Hillside cottage Neilston East Renfrewshire Scotland Killed in Action.( Frank Married Mary W Anderson on 5th Feb 1916 she was the 2nd Daughter of Robert Anderson of Neilston,a Joiner to trade) Franks wife Mary died at Hillside Cottage 22nd Dec 1921, just 5 years later. Frank is commemorated on the Village war memorial dedicated in November 2015(see picture)
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Private Frank Cornelius Peck
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Frank Cornelius Peck
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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FRANK CORNELIUS PECK was born in England 10th of August 1895. The Scottish Renfrewshire local news paper, the Barrhead news on April 20th 1917 Deaths section gives :- Pte Frank C Peck of Canadians husband of Mary Anderson who resided Hillside cottage Neilston East Renfrewshire Scotland Killed in Action.( Frank Married Mary W Anderson on 5th Feb 1916 she was the 2nd Daughter of Robert Anderson of Neilston,a Joiner to trade) Franks wife Mary died at Hillside Cottage 22nd Dec 1921, just 5 years later. Frank is commemorated on the Village war memorial dedicated in November 2015(see picture)
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His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Page 146 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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