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Francis Joseph McGrath

In memory of:

Able Seaman Francis Joseph McGrath

January 4, 1916

Military Service

Service Number:

380

Age:

40

Force:

Navy

Unit:

Royal Canadian Navy

Division:

H.M.C.S. Shearwater

Additional Information

Husband of Anna McGrath, of 2058 Oak Bay Avenue, Victoria, British Columbia.

Commemorated on Page 126 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

VETERANS' CEMETERY (ESQUIMALT)
British Columbia, Canada

Grave Reference:

472.

Location:

The Veterans' Cemetery National Historic Site is located adjacent to the Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt in the municipality of Esquimalt, British Columbia. On July 14, 1868 the cemetery was consecrated as a one acre Royal Navy plot. Today the site covers 2.2 acres with most of the land surrounding the cemetery owned by the Gorge Vale Golf Course. Presently the cemetery holds over 1700 graves of Canadian and Commonwealth naval and military personnel and their families. The Esquimalt Veterans' Cemetery is significant for its long history of providing a resting place for military dead.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Daily Colonist of January 5, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y21uvic#mode/1up

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Daily Colonist of January 19, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y33uvic#mode/1up

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