Sapper Martin McCurdy
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of birth: 1891-09-27
Place of birth:
Marital status: no data
Date of death:
1917-04-04
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Highland Cemetery, Roclincourt, II. C. 51.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 420957
Highest Rank:
Sapper
Rank detail
Sapper (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
this.
CWGC ID: 262530
LAC ID:
142529
Service file: B6682-S050
Uploader's Notes:
CEF Burial Registers - Killed in Action. While in a hut at St. Vaast near Arras, awaiting orders he was killed by an enemy high explosive shell which made a direct hit on the hut.
War Diary records 11 killed, 27 wounded of whom one was later declared Missing, presumed Dead.
Uploader's Research notes: [Sapper Army Canadian Railway Troops 5th Railway Battalion ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2020-05-07