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Earl Franklin McCabe

In memory of:

Gunner Earl Franklin McCabe

August 8, 1918

Military Service


Service Number:

2327338

Age:

19

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Field Artillery

Division:

24th Bty. 8th Bde.

Citation(s):

British War Medal, Victory Medal

Additional Information


Born:

November 16, 1898
Toronto, Ontario

Enlistment:

April 29, 1917
Cobourg, Ontario

Son of Thomas F. and Jennie McCabe, of Toronto, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 453 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

VI. P. 16.

Location:

Bouchoir is a village in the Department of the Somme on the straight main road from Amiens to Roye. The BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY is on the north-east side of the road nearly 2 kilometres south-east of the village.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram August 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram August 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Roll of honour– Earl Franklin McCabe's name appears on a Roll of Honour from 1914 - found in Victoria Avenue Baptist Church, Belleville Ontario. There is also a plaque with 6 names of Church members who died in the War - one medallion in the shape of a maple leaf bears the name  E McCabe

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