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Military service
Service number:
862357
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Pioneers
Division:
123rd Canadian Pioneer Battalion.
Birth:
September 19, 1895
Death:
October 21, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. H. 75.
Digital gallery of Private Frank Davidson McMurdy
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Newspaper Clipping
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War Diary
Official War Diary entry for the 123rd Battalion (Canadian Pioneers), pages 12-13. Pte. Franklin D. McMurdy was among 20 men killed on October 21st, 1917. The incident is detailed in this diary entry. -
Honour Roll
Appendix 19 from the 123rd Battalion (Canadian Pioneers) War Diary lists Pte. McMurdy among a group of 20 men killed when a shell struck their group returning to billets on October 21st, 1917. Based on this list, Pte. McMurdy was killed instantly. The 21st name on the list was a man who was killed in another incident earlier in the day. -
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Davidson McMurdy
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Davidson McMurdy
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Davidson McMurdy
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Davidson McMurdy
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Davidson McMurdy
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Davidson McMurdy
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Davidson McMurdy
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Davidson McMurdy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 287 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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