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Military service
Service number:
320990
Age:
21
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
5th Canadian Div. Trench Mortar Battery
Death:
September 2, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 35.
Additional information
Son of John and Annie Darragh, of Arlington Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Gunner Francis William Darragh
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Photo of Francis William Darragh
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Dack to Dabate. Microform Sequence 26; Volume Number 31829_B016735. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 170. Page 469 of 1140. Originally buried South of Dury, 9 ¾ miles South of Douai. After the Armistice, during the Concentration of Graves process, his body was exhumed and re-interred in DURY CRUCIFIX CEMETERY. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Ne -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Ne
Digital gallery of
Gunner Francis William Darragh
Digital gallery of
Gunner Francis William Darragh
Digital gallery of
Gunner Francis William Darragh
Digital gallery of
Gunner Francis William Darragh
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 394 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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