Military service
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Husband of Mary Grant Courtney of London, Ontario. He enlisted at the first call for Canadians to fight in Europe. He stated he was employed as a clerk before enlisting in the service.
Digital gallery of Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
Image depicts 2 members of CASCTD most likely taken at Shorncliffe England in 1915. Man on left is George Forbes Elliott (#112214 originally enlisted 7th Canadian Mounted Rifles later commissioned as a Lieutenant in the RFC. The man on the right is Staff Sergeant (major?) Samuel Henry Courtney (#30149) who died Oct 4, 1917 in France.
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
WWI window at St. George's Anglican church in London, Ontario where Samuel Courtney is remembered
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
Samuel Courtney's grave April 2015
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI to COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 555 of 900.
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
Shown as Sgt Maj S H Courteny in the December 1918 edition of The Christmas Echo published in London Ontario -- And in the Morning
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
From the London Free Press October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Image gallery
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Image depicts 2 members of CASCTD most likely taken at Shorncliffe England in 1915. Man on left is George Forbes Elliott (#112214 originally enlisted 7th Canadian Mounted Rifles later commissioned as a Lieutenant in the RFC. The man on the right is Staff Sergeant (major?) Samuel Henry Courtney (#30149) who died Oct 4, 1917 in France.
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WWI window at St. George's Anglican church in London, Ontario where Samuel Courtney is remembered
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Samuel Courtney's grave April 2015
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI to COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 555 of 900.
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Shown as Sgt Maj S H Courteny in the December 1918 edition of The Christmas Echo published in London Ontario -- And in the Morning
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From the London Free Press October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 221 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Neuville-St Vaast is a village 6.5 kilometres north of Arras, a little east of the road from Bethune to Arras. LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY lies to the south-west of the village on the north-west side of the road to the village of Maroeuil.
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