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Second Lieutenant Frank Willard Ferguson

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Military service

Age: 24
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: royal air force
Division: 87th Sqdn.
Birth: February 9, 1894 Pembina
Enlistment: June 14, 1917 Manitoba
Death: September 3, 1918

Burial/memorial information

ARRAS ROAD CEMETERY
Grave reference: II. A. 14.
Additional information
Son of Robert and M. J. Ferguson, of Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Brother of Dr. Robert Ferguson and Vernon Ferguson. Uncle of Robert and David Ferguson and they served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.

Frank, a member of RFC 87 Squadron, was killed when the Sopwith Dolphin, he was flying in a dogfight near the Canadian-German line in France, was shot down by German Ace Michael Hutterer.

Dr. Ferguson was a was a pioneer in North America's fight against tuberculosis (TB) and the introduction of free treatment.

His nephew Robert Ross Ferguson was a decorated World War II pilot.

His niece Sheelagh Ferguson Barrable served in the Women’s Division of the RCAF. English:

Digitized service file.

French:

Dossier de service numérisé.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 586 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ARRAS ROAD CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Roclincourt is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, a little east of the road from Arras to Lens and Lille. The cemetery is on the west side of the main N17 road from Arras to Lens, about 6 kilometres north of Arras, and north of the village of Roclincourt. The cemetery was enlarged in 1926-29 by the concentration of 993 graves from a wide area mainly North and East of Arras. There are now over 1,000 First World war casualties commemorated in this site which covers an area of 4,084 square metres. It is enclosed on three sides by a stone rubble wall, and against the road by a retaining wall. Old dug-outs exist under the North-East corner and on the South-West boundary.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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