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Military service
Age:
25
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Division:
77th Bn.
Birth:
May 7, 1892
Brampton, Ontario
Enlistment:
May 12, 1916
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Private vault. Range 11.
Additional information
Son of F. W. and Anna E. Sutcliffe, of Lindsay, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Major Charles Elliott Sutcliffe
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Newspaper clipping
"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921. -
Photo of Charles Elliott Sutcliffe
Portrait of Major Charles Elliott Sutcliffe. Source: William Perkins Bull. "From Brock to Currie: the military development and exploits of Canadians in general and of the men of Peel in particular, 1791 to 1930." Toronto 1935, pg. 433. -
Photo of Charles Sutcliffe
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of Charles Elliott Sutcliffe
Captain (and then Major) Charles Elliott Sutcliffe in Ottawa, 77th Battalion, CEF, before sailing to England on SS Missanabi, June 6, 1916. Joined Royal Flying Corps in August 1916 - attached to 54th Squadron in May, 1917 and shot down in June, 1917 near Epinoy, France. The Germans dropped a message onto British Lines saying he was dead. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Major Charles Elliott Sutcliffe
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Elliott Sutcliffe
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Elliott Sutcliffe
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Elliott Sutcliffe
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Elliott Sutcliffe
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Elliott Sutcliffe
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Elliott Sutcliffe
Digital gallery of
Major Charles Elliott Sutcliffe
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Commemorated on:
Page 335 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LINDSAY (RIVERSIDE) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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