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In memory of:

Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney

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Military service

Service number: 30149
Age: 39
Rank: Staff Sergeant Major
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Army Service Corps
Division: 3rd Div. Train
Birth: March 11, 1878 Quebec City
Enlistment: September 19, 1914
Death: October 4, 1917

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. G. 4.
Additional information

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.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

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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