Private Frederick Alfred Lake
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Lake,
Frederick Alfred
Date of birth: 1880-04-18
Place of birth: Scott Township Ontario Canada
Next of kin: J.A. Lake, brother, Sutton West, Ontario
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Mechanical Engineer
Occupation (normalized): Mechanical Engineer, General
Address:
Vancouver, British Columbia
Religion: Church of England
Date of death:
1917-04-09
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Bois-Carre British Cemetery, V. A. 20.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 478975
Highest Rank:
Private
(Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry)
Rank detail
- Private, Royal Canadian Regiment (Army).
- Private, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Infantry (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: While proceeding in the attack at Vimy Ridge he was hit in the lung and hilled by an emery bullet
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
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CWGC ID: 618213
LAC ID:
512892
Service file: B5319-S039
Uploader's Notes:
Son of James and Alice Lake, of Sutton West, Ontario. Private Lake originally enlisted with The Royal Canadian Regiment; however, he was serving with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the time of his death. (Joined the P.P.C.L.I. in the field February 4, 1917.)
His casualty form gives his date of death as 9/10-4-17.
Uploader's Research notes: Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948” database [Private Army Canadian Infantry Private Army Canadian Infantry Royal Canadian Regiment Private Army Canadian Infantry Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-02-26