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Lieutenant Colonel Francis Douglas Farquhar

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Military service

Age: 40
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth: September 1, 1874 England
Enlistment: August 12, 1914 Ontario
Death: March 21, 1915 St. Eloi, Belgium

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: III. A. 6.
Additional information

Husband of Lady Evelyn Farquhar, Montague Place, London West, England and Rideau Cottage, Ottawa. Educated at Eton College, Windsor, England. LCol Farquhar spoke French, Somali and Chinese. He saw action in South Africa 1899-1900 and Somaliland 1903-1904

The province of British Columbia honoured Lieutenant Colonel Francis Douglas Farquhar by naming Mount Farquhar, located on the British Columbia/Alberta boundary, east side of upper Fording River, northeast of Fernie, Kootenay Land District, British Columbia.

Commemorated on the Royal Ottawa Golf Club War Memorial, The East Window and at Mount Farquhar.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 14 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURE NO.3 Belgium

Voormezeele Enclosure No. 3 is located 4 kilometres south-west of Ieper town centre on the Ruusschaartstraat, a road leading from the Kemmelseweg (Connecting Ieper to Kemmel N331). From Ieper town centre the Kemmelseweg is reached via the Rijselsestraat, through the Lille Gate (Rijselpoort) and straight on towards Armentieres (N365). 900 metres after the crossroads is the right hand turning onto the Kemmelseweg (made prominent by a railway level crossing). Turn right onto the Kemmelseweg and follow this road to the first crossroads, turn left here into Ruusschaartstraat. The Cemetery is located 1 kilometre after this junction on the left hand side of the road just before Voormezeele Dorp.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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