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Eyre Frederick Morton Dann

In memory of:

Lieutenant Eyre Frederick Morton Dann

November 3, 1916

Military Service


Age:

29

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)

Division:

"D" Coy. 72nd Bn.

Additional Information


Son of Rev. Alfred George and Margaret Sophia Dann; husband of Kathleen Isabel Dann, of Penetanguishene, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 74 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme, France

Grave Reference:

II. A. 28.

Location:

Contay is a village in the Department of the Somme on the main road, Amiens to Arras. The CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY lies on the left (north east) side of the road to Franvillers. There are no access problems. There is a CWGC road sign next to the church and square of the village and next to the D23, Franvillers - Corbie, sign. The distance from the CWGC sign to the Cemetery is approximately 650 metres.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Circumstances of death registers– Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD
WAR Surnames: Dack to Dabate. Microform Sequence 26; Volume Number 31829_B016735. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 170. Page 365 of 1140.
  • Photo of Eyre F M Dann– Ltn Eyre F M Dann as shown in the December 1918 edtion of The Christmas Echo published in London Ontario. -- And in the Morning
  • Newspaper clipping– In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Photo of Eyre Frederick Morton Dann
  • Honour Roll– From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921.
  • Photo of Eyre Dann– From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1918.  
Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me.
  • Attestation papers– CEF ATTESTATION. re family:    Nora M. (Dann)  Duncan Poet b.c. 1883, Vermont, Clarina, County Limerick, Ire.; d. May 31, 1946, aboard a CPR train near Moose Jaw, Sask.  Came to London, Ont. as child with father, the Reverend Preceptor Alfred Dann. Educated at Bishop Strachan School, Toronto. After marriage to Wallace Craig Duncan at London, Ont. in June 1908, she spent a number of years on the prairies before coming to Vancouver. Wrote two books of poems Down to the Sea and Rainbow Reveries. Organizer of the radio program 'The Lyric West'.
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