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Captain George Edward Francklyn

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Military service

Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Army Service Corps
Division: Div. Train
Death: December 7, 1915

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: M. 14.
Additional information
George Edward Francklyn was born at Halifax in Nova Scotia on the 1st of March 1874 the eldest son of George Edward Francklyn, a merchant, and Frances Maria (nee Clarke) Francklyn later of Victoria in British Columbia.

He was educated at Lancing College where he was in School House from May 1888 to December 1889.

After leaving school he returned to Nova Scotia and joined his father's firm of S Cunard and Sons of Halifax. He played hockey for the Wanderers and was regarded as the finest player of the game that Halifax had ever seen.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 15 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SHORNCLIFFE MILITARY CEMETERY Kent, United Kingdom

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