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Military service
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Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Hannaford, of 26, Springfield Avenue, Westmount, P.Q., Canada.
Military Cross
Digital gallery of Captain Alfred Crawford Hannaford
Digital gallery of
Captain Alfred Crawford Hannaford
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc
Digital gallery of
Captain Alfred Crawford Hannaford
From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Alfred Crawford Hannaford
Decorations and medals awarded to Captain A. C. Hannaford, on permanent display at the Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto. Left to right: Military Cross and Bar (for second award); 1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Memorial Cross. The Memorial Cross was a memento of personal loss and sacrifice that, shortly after the war, was sent by His Majesty's Canadian Government to (in this case) Capt. Hannaford's mother, Elizabeth Crawford Hannaford of Westmount, Québec. Capt. Hannaford died of wounds received in action during the Hundred Days Offensive near the end of the war, while serving in the 87th Battalion (Canadian Grenadier Guards), CEF. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker, of Barrie, Ontario, in 2024.)
Digital gallery of
Captain Alfred Crawford Hannaford
The entry for Captain A. C. Hannaford in the Circumstances of Death Register. (Source: Library and Archives Canada.)
Image gallery
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc
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From the Montreal Star c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Decorations and medals awarded to Captain A. C. Hannaford, on permanent display at the Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto. Left to right: Military Cross and Bar (for second award); 1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Memorial Cross. The Memorial Cross was a memento of personal loss and sacrifice that, shortly after the war, was sent by His Majesty's Canadian Government to (in this case) Capt. Hannaford's mother, Elizabeth Crawford Hannaford of Westmount, Québec. Capt. Hannaford died of wounds received in action during the Hundred Days Offensive near the end of the war, while serving in the 87th Battalion (Canadian Grenadier Guards), CEF. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker, of Barrie, Ontario, in 2024.)
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The entry for Captain A. C. Hannaford in the Circumstances of Death Register. (Source: Library and Archives Canada.)
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 423 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY is situated on the D919 heading south from Arras to Ayette. The Cemetery is on the right hand side of the road, 9 kilometres from Arras, just before a crossroads with the D36 between Ficheux and Boisleux-au-Mont.
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