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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Flying Corps
Division:
21st Sqdn.
Enlistment:
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
October 20, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. A. 9.
Additional information
Son of Andrew McCreight Creery and Anna Creery (nee Hulbert), of Vancouver, British Columbia. Enlisted as Tpr. in 11th Canadian Mounted Rifles, afterwards served in R.N.A.S.
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Cuthbert John Creery
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Biography
In memory of the students from the University of British Columbia who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
In Memorium
In memory of the students from the University of British Columbia who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of CUTHBERT JOHN CREERY
In memory of the students from the University of British Columbia who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Gravemarker
The grave of 2/Lt. C. J. Creery, taken in Heilly Station Cemetery in France. April 2006. -
Heilly Station Cemetery
This is Heilly Station Cemetery in France. My daugher Grace is kneeling in front of 2/Lt. Creery's headstone. More can be read about 2/Lt. Creery in the book "A Rattle of Pebbles: The First World War Diaries of Two Canadian Airmen". -
Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper clipping from Daily Telegraph of November 20, 1916. Image taken from web address of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12213828/Daily-Telegraph-November-20-1916.html -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of October 26, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y274uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of October 28, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y276uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 1 issue of the Vancouver News Advertiser c.1916 Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Cuthbert John Creery
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Cuthbert John Creery
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Cuthbert John Creery
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Cuthbert John Creery
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Cuthbert John Creery
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Cuthbert John Creery
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Cuthbert John Creery
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Cuthbert John Creery
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Cuthbert John Creery
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 570 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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