Military service
Service number:
444007
Age:
29
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
April 16, 1888
Hampton, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
May 11, 1915
Amherst, Nova Scotia
Death:
October 30, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVIII. E. 3.
Additional information
Son of Norval H. and Charlotte Frances Otty (nee Gilbert), of Gagetown, New Brunswick.
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Lieutenant Allen Otty, killed in action North of Passchendaele on October 30th, 1917. He was 29. He was killed while serving with C Company, the 5th CMR. Otty enlisted with the 6 CMR on May 11th 1915, in Amherst, Nova Scotia, where the Otty family has a military history dating back to preconfederation.<P> Otty was last heard from at 1:45 PM on the 30th, when after holding a desperate position against repeated counterattack since early that morning, a message from him arrived at HQ by carrier pigeon. It said "holding Source Farm with 6 men. Gifford on the right. Send reinforcements and ammo. Enemy estimated at 300 digging in on the right." <P> No help reached him until dark, by which time sadly Otty had been killed. -
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From a World War One issue of the Fredericton (New Brunswick) Daily Gleaner c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1917. Submitted for he project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Otty
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Otty
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Otty
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Otty
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Otty
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Otty
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Allen Otty
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 304 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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