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Cyril Knox Barrow Mogg

In memory of:

Captain Cyril Knox Barrow Mogg

November 11, 1917

Military Service


Age:

30

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)

Division:

7th Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

May 8, 1887
Clifton, United Kingdom

Enlistment:

October 23, 1915
Vancouver, British Columbia

Son of Reverend Canon Mogg and Mrs. Mogg of Bishop's Cannings Vicarage, Devizes, United Kingdom.

Brother of Private Aubrey Barrow Mogg, who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment).

Commemorated on Page 295 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:

Panel 18 - 28 - 30

Location:


The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:


TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.

Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:

HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.

The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Photo of Cyril Mogg– From the book "Letters From The Front 1914-1919" published by The Canadian Bank of Commerce.
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Menin Gate
  • Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
  • Photo of Cyril Mogg– In memory of the employees from the Canadian Bank Of Commerce (CIBC) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Inscription– from the war memorial in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bishop's Cannings, Wiltshire, UK (C. K. B. Mogg was the son of Canon H. H. Mogg, vicar of Bishop's Cannings from 1907 to 1927)
  • War Memorial– The war memorial in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bishop's Cannings, Wiltshire, UK (A. B. Mogg was the son of Canon H. H. Mogg, vicar of Bishop's Cannings from 1907 to 1927)

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