Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper clipping – From the Vancouver Daily Province September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Press Clipping – From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926.

Memorial – Major Frederick Travers Lucas is remembered on the Lucas family monument at Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Memorial – Detail of inscription on the Lucas monument.

Newspaper Clipping

Grave Marker – This is an early photograph of Villers Station Cemetery. Major Lucas' grave is right in the middle of the picture. Preparatory to the attack on Vimy Ridge in April 1917, Canadian troops participated in several raids on the German positions. The largest of those was on the night of 28 Feb-01 Mar 1917. This is the story of what happened, as related in Nicholson's "Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War": But the most elaborately planned Canadian raid of the winter was an attack on the night of 28 February-1 March by some 1700 all ranks of the 4th Division (representing from left to right the 73rd, 72nd, 75th and 54th Battalions) to reconnoitre and inflict damage on German defences on Hill 145 (see below, p. 258). To achieve surprise the planners ruled out any preliminary bombardment or wire cutting. To aid the attackers cylinders of tear gas and chlorine had been installed along the whole divisional front, but the preliminary discharge of the former served only to alert the enemy (troops of the 16th Bavarian Infantry Division and the 79th Reserve Division), and a changing wind prevented use of the lethal chlorine - indeed the attackers themselves suffered casualties when German shells breached some of the cylinders. The venture was almost a complete failure. While the 12th Brigade parties on the left reached most of their objectives, the enemy discovered those of the 11th Brigade before they were well clear of their own wire, and brought them under withering fire. The Canadians took 37 prisoners: their own casualties numbered 687, including two battalion commanders killed. During the next two days the Germans permitted and even helped our troops to recover their dead. Major Lucas lies beside his battalion commander, Lt. Col. A. H. G. Kemball, CB DSO.

Grave marker

War Memorial – Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 564 Major Frederick Travers Lucas (RMC 1901) was the son of Richard Alan and Agnes Lucas of Hamilton, Ontario. He was employed as a civil engineer and was single. On enlistment, he joined the 84th Overseas Kootenay Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He served with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment), 54th Bn. He died on 1 Mar 1917. He was buried in the Villers Station Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France.

Memorial Stained Glass – Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 564 Major Frederick Travers Lucas (RMC 1901) was the son of Richard Alan and Agnes Lucas of Hamilton, Ontario. He was employed as a civil engineer and was single. On enlistment, he joined the 84th Overseas Kootenay Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He served with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment), 54th Bn. He died on 1 Mar 1917. He was buried in the Villers Station Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France.

Memorial Doll – Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 564 Major Frederick Travers Lucas (RMC 1901) was the son of Richard Alan and Agnes Lucas of Hamilton, Ontario. He was employed as a civil engineer and was single. On enlistment, he joined the 84th Overseas Kootenay Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He served with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment), 54th Bn. He died on 1 Mar 1917. He was buried in the Villers Station Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France.

Memorial Stair – Memorial stairwell, Royal Military College of Canada

Memorial Stained Glass – Memorial window, Royal Military College of Canada

Memorial Arch – Memorial arch, Royal Military College of Canada

Memorial – Frederick Travers Lucas, who was an ex-Batallion Sergeant Major at the Royal Military College, Kingston, No. 564 is remembered in the Memorial Arch. Major Frederick Travers Lucas, 54th Bn. C.E.F. who killed in action in 1917 in France gallantly leading his men after being wounded twice.

Memorial Stained Glass – Frederick Travers Lucas, who was an ex-Batallion Sergeant Major at the Royal Military College, Kingston, No. 564 is remembered in the Memorial stained glass windows. Major Frederick Travers Lucas, 54th Bn. C.E.F. who killed in action in 1917 in France gallantly leading his men after being wounded twice.