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Son of John D. Currie, the High Sheriff of Hants Co., and Bessie A. Currie, of Windsor, Hants Co., Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of Private John Mclain Currie
Digital gallery of
Private John Mclain Currie
15th Bn cap badge. Submitted by Capt (Ret`d) S. W. Gilbert, 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team.
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Digital gallery of
Private John Mclain Currie
1ST Division, 3rd Brigade shoulder patch worn by 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada). Submitted by Capt (Ret`d) S. W. Gilbert, 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team.
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Digital gallery of
Private John Mclain Currie
Cap badge of the 17th Bn, which he originally joined before being sent to the15th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (Ret`d) S. W. Gilbert, 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team.
DILEAS GU BRATH
Digital gallery of
Private John Mclain Currie
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 641 of 890. No record of burial.
Digital gallery of
Private John Mclain Currie
In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Remembered by the 48th Highlanders Museum 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private John Mclain Currie
In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Remembered by the 48th Highlanders Museum 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private John Mclain Currie
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private John Mclain Currie
Private John McLean Currie (left) and Private Osborne Tweedie (right) were both members of No. 4 Company, 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders). This photograph was taken in France between January and April 1915 before the battalion moved to the Ypres salient in Belgium and took part in the 2nd battle of Ypres. McLean was killed in action on 23 April and Tweedie was killed in action on 24 April. The remains of both men were never recovered or if recovered, never identified and they are commemorated on The Menin Gate.
Photograph courtesy of Barbara Bickle, the granddaughter of Pte (later Lt) W. Bickle who was also in No 4 Company.
Submitted by BGen G Young, 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project.
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15th Bn cap badge. Submitted by Capt (Ret`d) S. W. Gilbert, 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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1ST Division, 3rd Brigade shoulder patch worn by 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada). Submitted by Capt (Ret`d) S. W. Gilbert, 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Cap badge of the 17th Bn, which he originally joined before being sent to the15th Bn as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (Ret`d) S. W. Gilbert, 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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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 641 of 890. No record of burial.
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In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Remembered by the 48th Highlanders Museum 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Remembered by the 48th Highlanders Museum 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private John McLean Currie (left) and Private Osborne Tweedie (right) were both members of No. 4 Company, 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders). This photograph was taken in France between January and April 1915 before the battalion moved to the Ypres salient in Belgium and took part in the 2nd battle of Ypres. McLean was killed in action on 23 April and Tweedie was killed in action on 24 April. The remains of both men were never recovered or if recovered, never identified and they are commemorated on The Menin Gate. Photograph courtesy of Barbara Bickle, the granddaughter of Pte (later Lt) W. Bickle who was also in No 4 Company. Submitted by BGen G Young, 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project. Dileas Gu Brath
MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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