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Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Flying Corps
Division:
20th Bn
Birth:
June 14, 1894
Iroquois, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 28, 1916
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
August 13, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. E. 27.
Additional information
Son of John and Annie Doran, of Iroquois, Ontario; husband of Mary Frances Caldwell McColl (formerly Doran), of 19, Dunstan Apartments, Stoney Plain Rd., Edmonton, Alberta.
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Roll of Honour
"This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. The information on this Honour Roll may differ from other sources as it was compiled by the Department of Education in Toronto, Ontario, from "...varied and numerous sources, that mistakes are inevitable." -
Memorial
British War Medal and Victory Medal to Lieut. F.B.Moran. Moran had been a subaltern with the 20th Can Inf, before transferring to the RFC. He became an Observer, flying in the ungainly RE-8. He and his pilot, 2Lt Frank Warren Curtis, another Canadian, were shot down and killed. They lie side by side in Mendingham Military Cemetery. -
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Don to Drzewiecki. Microform Sequence 29; Volume Number 31829_B016738. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 173. Page 243 of 1076.
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Lieutenant Frank Beecher Doran
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Frank Beecher Doran
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Frank Beecher Doran
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Frank Beecher Doran
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 229 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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