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Military service
Service number:
687087
Age:
25
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Birth:
July 24, 1893
Enlistment:
Kamloops, British Columbia
Death:
August 29, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. A. 5.
Additional information
Native of Rotherham, England. Son of Fred and Nellie Carr, of North Lonsdale, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Basil Carr
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War Memorial
Kamloops Cenotaph, Memorial Park, Battle Street and 2nd Avenue, Kamloops, British Columbia. Includes honour roll tablets listing 189 names for World War I and 92 names for World War II. Unveiled on May 24th, 1925. Inscribed: C.E.F. - NOR TIME NOR TIDE CAN EVER EFFACE THE MEMORY OF OUR GLORIOUS DEAD. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Canavan to Caswell. Microform Sequence 18; Volume Number 31829_B016727. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 162. Page 407 of 1004.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Basil Carr
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Basil Carr
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 381 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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