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Military service
Age:
34
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
54th Bn.
Birth:
February 20, 1883
Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 2, 1915
Vernon Camp, British Columbia
Death:
March 1, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. E. 2.
Additional information
Son of Richard Alan and Agnes Lucas of Hamilton, Ontario. He was employed as a civil engineer and was single. On enlistment, he joined the 54th Overseas Kootenay Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Digital gallery of Major Frederick Travers Lucas
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Coupure de presse
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
monument commémoratif
Major Frederick Travers Lucas is remembered on the Lucas family monument at Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. -
monument commémoratif
Detail of inscription on the Lucas monument. -
Coupre de presse
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Pierre Tombale
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Pierre Tombale
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Mémorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 564 Major Frederick Travers Lucas (RMC 1901) was the son of Richard Alan and Agnes Lucas of Hamilton, Ontario. He was employed as a civil engineer and was single. On enlistment, he joined the 84th Overseas Kootenay Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He served with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment), 54th Bn. He died on 1 Mar 1917. He was buried in the Villers Station Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. -
Mémorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 564 Major Frederick Travers Lucas (RMC 1901) was the son of Richard Alan and Agnes Lucas of Hamilton, Ontario. He was employed as a civil engineer and was single. On enlistment, he joined the 84th Overseas Kootenay Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He served with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment), 54th Bn. He died on 1 Mar 1917. He was buried in the Villers Station Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. -
Mémorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 564 Major Frederick Travers Lucas (RMC 1901) was the son of Richard Alan and Agnes Lucas of Hamilton, Ontario. He was employed as a civil engineer and was single. On enlistment, he joined the 84th Overseas Kootenay Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He served with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment), 54th Bn. He died on 1 Mar 1917. He was buried in the Villers Station Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. -
Mémorial
Memorial arch, Royal Military College of Canada -
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Memorial stairwell, Royal Military College of Canada -
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Memorial window, Royal Military College of Canada -
Mémorial
Frederick Travers Lucas, who was an ex-Batallion Sergeant Major at the Royal Military College, Kingston, No. 564 is remembered in the Memorial Arch. Major Frederick Travers Lucas, 54th Bn. C.E.F. who killed in action in 1917 in France gallantly leading his men after being wounded twice. -
Mémorial
Frederick Travers Lucas, who was an ex-Batallion Sergeant Major at the Royal Military College, Kingston, No. 564 is remembered in the Memorial stained glass windows. Major Frederick Travers Lucas, 54th Bn. C.E.F. who killed in action in 1917 in France gallantly leading his men after being wounded twice. -
Coupure de presse
From the Vancouver Daily Province September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Major Frederick Travers Lucas
Digital gallery of
Major Frederick Travers Lucas
Digital gallery of
Major Frederick Travers Lucas
Digital gallery of
Major Frederick Travers Lucas
Digital gallery of
Major Frederick Travers Lucas
Digital gallery of
Major Frederick Travers Lucas
Digital gallery of
Major Frederick Travers Lucas
Digital gallery of
Major Frederick Travers Lucas
Digital gallery of
Major Frederick Travers Lucas
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Commemorated on:
Page 277 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS STATION CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Villers-au-Bois is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 11 kilometres north-west of Arras. The VILLERS STATION CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-west of the village.
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