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Military service
Service number:
772380
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Division:
60th Bn.
Birth:
May 8, 1895
Death:
February 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. C. 29.
Additional information
Son of William and Elizabeth Franks, of England; husband of Clara Franks, of Paris, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Charles Arthur Franks
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Mémorial de guerre de Port Dover
War Memorial - Port Dover, ON. -
Plaque commémoratif
Detail of the commemorative plaque. -
carte
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Mémorial
Paris Ontario War Memorial. An unveiling and dedication ceremony was conducted at the memorial on November 11th, 1930. The memorial was unveiled by Mrs. R. Baldwin, mother of Nursing Sister Dorothy Baldwin. A dedicatory address was made by Lt.-Col. the Ven. Archdeacon F. G. Scott, D.S.O. (Canon Scott). Bands of the 10th Brant Dragoons and the 1st Dufferin Rifles assisted in the service. The memorial was designed and built by the Hunter Granite Works, Simcoe, Ontario. It is inscribed: 1914 - 1918 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF PARIS WHO FELL AND IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR. -
Tableau d'honneur
This Roll of Honour appeared in the pamphlet distributed at the Paris Ontario War Memorial's unveiling and dedication ceremony on November 11th, 1930. -
Coupure de presse
From the Brantford Expositor 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Arthur Franks
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Arthur Franks
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Arthur Franks
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Arthur Franks
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Arthur Franks
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Arthur Franks
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 239 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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