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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, Québec
Enlistment:
September 19, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
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.
Digital gallery of Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
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Group Photo
Image depicts 2 members of CASCTD most likely taken at Shorncliffe England in 1915. Man on left is George Forbes Elliott (#112214 originally enlisted 7th Canadian Mounted Rifles later commissioned as a Lieutenant in the RFC. The man on the right is Staff Sergeant (major?) Samuel Henry Courtney (#30149) who died Oct 4, 1917 in France. -
Memorial
WWI window at St. George's Anglican church in London, Ontario where Samuel Courtney is remembered -
Grave Marker
Samuel Courtney's grave April 2015 -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI to COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 555 of 900. -
Photo of Samuel Henry Courtney
Shown as Sgt Maj S H Courteny in the December 1918 edition of The Christmas Echo published in London Ontario -- And in the Morning -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
Digital gallery of
Staff Sergeant Major Samuel Henry Courtney
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 221 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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