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Military service
Service number:
234916
Age:
38
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
8th Bn.
Birth:
December 20, 1879
Polperro, Cornwall, England
Enlistment:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
August 11, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. BB. 9.
Additional information
Son of Harry and Amelia Curtis, of Grimbsy, England; husband of Ann Elizabeth Curtis, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Private Louis Curtis
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England, 2008. -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Crossley to Cyrs. Microform Sequence 25; Volume Number 31829_B016734. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 169. Page 753 of 890. Originally buried in Dury Hospital Military Cemetery, under the wall of the Asylum near the West side of the Amiens-Dury road. After the Armistice the bodies of the 444 soldiers buried there were exhumed and re-interred in VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY. -
Group Photo
Louis Curtis is standing on the left. We do not know who the others are. -
Photo of Louis Curtis
A photo of Louis Curtis which was sent from Europe while he was over there. -
A studio photo of Louis Curtis
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Letter
This is my great-grandfathers last letter home - Front Side. It was sent the day before the battle of Amiens commenced. Anne is his wife. Lou (Louis) and Fred are his sons. I have no idea who Archie was. -
Letter
This is my great-grandfathers last letter home - Back Side. It was sent the day before the battle of Amiens commenced. Anne is his wife. Lou (Louis) and Fred are his sons. I have no idea who Archie was. -
Group Photo
Louis Curtis is standing in the back row, the second from the left. I have no idea who the others might be.
Digital gallery of
Private Louis Curtis
Digital gallery of
Private Louis Curtis
Digital gallery of
Private Louis Curtis
Digital gallery of
Private Louis Curtis
Digital gallery of
Private Louis Curtis
Digital gallery of
Private Louis Curtis
Digital gallery of
Private Louis Curtis
Digital gallery of
Private Louis Curtis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 393 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
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