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Son of Andrew McCreight Creery and Anna Creery (nee Hulbert), of Vancouver, British Columbia. Enlisted as Tpr. in 11th Canadian Mounted Rifles, afterwards served in R.N.A.S.
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Cuthbert John Creery
Image gallery
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In memory of the students from the University of British Columbia who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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In memory of the students from the University of British Columbia who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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In memory of the students from the University of British Columbia who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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The grave of 2/Lt. C. J. Creery, taken in Heilly Station Cemetery in France. April 2006.
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This is Heilly Station Cemetery in France. My daugher Grace is kneeling in front of 2/Lt. Creery's headstone. More can be read about 2/Lt. Creery in the book "A Rattle of Pebbles: The First World War Diaries of Two Canadian Airmen".
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Newspaper clipping from Daily Telegraph of November 20, 1916. Image taken from web address of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12213828/Daily-Telegraph-November-20-1916.html
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From the Daily Colonist of October 26, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y274uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
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From the Daily Colonist of October 28, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y276uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
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From the Vancouver Daily Province October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From a World War 1 issue of the Vancouver News Advertiser c.1916 Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 570 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE Somme, France
Mericourt-l'Abbe is a village approximately 19 kilometres north-east of Amiens and 10 kilometres south-west of Albert. HEILLY STATION CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres south-west of Mericourt-l'Abbe, on the south side of the road to Corbie.
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