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Military service
Service number:
1042367
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
March 14, 1898
Wolfe Island, Ontario
Enlistment:
November 10, 1916
Renfrew, Ontario
Death:
September 28, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
A. 29.
Additional information
Son of Harry and Susan Davis, of Gananoque, Ontario; husband of Mary Johnston (formerly Davis), of Mille Roches, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Frederick Leonard Davis
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Mill Switch Cross
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Picture of the Cemetery
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Gravemarker
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Gananoque Remembers
Gananoque, Ontario is a small town situated on the St. Lawrence River in the heart of 1,000 Islands. It is one of hundreds of communities throughout Canada with war memorials which commemorate more than 110,000 men and women who lost their lives during both world wars. Over a thousand citizens from Gananoque and surounding areas served in the navy, army, or air force: 83 lost their lives in parts of Canada, and in the battlefields of Europe. Among the dead of Gananoque include a 15 year old solider, a father of ten, four sets of brothers and a Victoria Cross winner. <P> Today the town cenotaph lists the names of those who died and few citizens are aware of their family backgrounds or their circumstances of their deaths. Geraldine Chase of Gannaoque and Bill Beswetherick of Kingston believed it was necessary to collect this information and perpetuate their sacrifices.<P> Gananoque Remembers book is a tribute to those who gave their lives for our freedom.<P> -
Memorial Page
Frederick L. Davis is honoured on page 105 of the <i>Gananoque Remembers</i> booklet, published on January 31, 2005. -
Gananoque War Memorial - Gananoque, Ontario.
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Photo of mother and son
Mrs. Davis (Mary Jessie Troup) and son Frederick Jr. who was born after Pte. Davis went overseas. -
Death Certificate
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Photo of Frederick Leonard Davis
Photo From granddaughter Judy Dennison, Cornwall, Ont. -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Dack to Dabate. Microform Sequence 26; Volume Number 31829_B016735. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 170. Page 971 of 1140. -
From the British Whig, a Kingston, Ontario newspaper. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Frederick Leonard Davis
MILL SWITCH BRITISH CEMETERY Nord, France
Tilloy (or Tilloy-les-Cambrai) is a village in the Department of the Nord, 2.5 kilometres north of Cambrai and 1 kilometre east of the Cambrai-Douai road. MILL SWITCH BRITISH CEMETERY is south-west of the village, near the west side of the Douai road.
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