Private Gordon Crawford Gifford
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Gifford,
Gordon Crawford
Date of birth: 1893-12-07
Place of birth: Port Hope Ontario Canada
Next of kin: Mrs. Robert Charles Smith (Mother) Port Hope, Ontario
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Horse packer
Religion: Church of England
Date of death:
1918-03-29
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Faubourg-D’Amiens Cemetery, Arras, VII. C. 20.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 412589
Highest Rank:
Private
Rank detail
Private (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Arras, 2nd battle of the Somme
Commemoration location: Book of Remembrance (Ottawa), page 414
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
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CWGC ID: 284181
LAC ID:
412582
Service file: B3511-S045
Uploader's Notes:
Son of Francis Sweetland Gifford & Mary Wallace Smart (d/o Robert & Jane), he married Lucie May Gifford, of 6, Lawford Rd., Kentish Town, London, England. Gordon's mother appears to have remarried - Robert Charles Smith - by the time he enlisted. (Siblings' birth registrations, 1901 census returns, VWM records & St. John's Anglican Cemetery database [Port Hope])
Uploader's Research notes: [Private Army Canadian Infantry 39th Battalion ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2010-03-20