QSAMIKE Posted July 28, 2014 Posted July 28, 2014 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 1
IrishGunner Posted July 28, 2014 Posted July 28, 2014 Always nice to something from the Royal Highlanders.
Brett Hendey Posted July 29, 2014 Posted July 29, 2014 Mike It must have been a great feeling when the bells and whistles sounded! Congratulations on an excellent find and excellent detective work. Regards Brett
Mervyn Mitton Posted July 29, 2014 Posted July 29, 2014 A great find - and just at the right time with the Anniversary about to start. Mervyn
peter monahan Posted July 29, 2014 Posted July 29, 2014 Circumstances of Death Card: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.01-e.php?q2=28&q3=2272&sqn=466&tt=1003&PHPSESSID=rgi7t06a60or2jdheocn6v65f4 "Died of Wounds on No. 16 Field Ambulance Train."
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