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    Interesting Find - 13th Battalion C.E.F. - Casualty


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    Good Morning Everyone.....

    This weekend had been one of the best that I have ever done on the Garage Sale Circuit as stated in a previous thread about the aerial camera..... Here is the WW1 Photograph.......

    A very large colourized photograph of a member of either the 13th or 42nd Battalion CEF going by the cap badge and the seller saying that Grandad served in the Canadian Army in WW1......

    I got the photograph home and took a very close look at it, written very faintly in pencil on the reverse is the name Robert Carric..... I tried to look up that name and found nothing that would match and then I added a “k” to the end “Carrick”.....

    All the bells and whistles then went off......

    24062 Sergeant Robert Lawson Carrick, 13th Battalion C.E.F.

    Here are his attestation papers a bit hard to read.....

    http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef/Pages/image.aspx?Image=011298a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fdata2.archives.ca%2fcef%2fren1%2f011298a.gif&Ecopy=011298a

    and here is his CWGC notification, he was killed or died on April 26th, 1915.....

    Battle of St. Julien????? or as a result of gas from Battle of Gravenstafel ????? but anyway the Second Battle of Ypres.....

    http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/44310/CARRICK,%20ROBERT%20LAWSON

    The size of the photograph is 17 Inches by 21 1/2 Inches so quite large ......

    Mike

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