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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
25
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
Division:
"C" Coy. 26th Bn.
Birth:
June 16, 1892
Georgetown, British Guiana
Enlistment:
February 22, 1915
Saint John, New Brunswick
Death:
August 15, 1917
Lens, France
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Charles Theodore and Emily Winter of Saint John, New Brunswick.
Additional citations
Military Cross, British War Medal and Victory medal
Digital gallery of Captain Francis Bassell Winter
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Newspaper Clipping
Source: McGill Daily October 1, 1917 -
Honour Roll
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
War Diary
An example of Lt. F. B. Winter's heroic contributions as mentioned in the 26th Battalion War Diaries June 1916 P5 -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Badge
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Francis Bassell Winter
Digital gallery of
Captain Francis Bassell Winter
Digital gallery of
Captain Francis Bassell Winter
Digital gallery of
Captain Francis Bassell Winter
Digital gallery of
Captain Francis Bassell Winter
Digital gallery of
Captain Francis Bassell Winter
Digital gallery of
Captain Francis Bassell Winter
Digital gallery of
Captain Francis Bassell Winter
Digital gallery of
Captain Francis Bassell Winter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 352 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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