Corporal Richard McCullough
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
McCullough,
Richard
Date of birth: 1879-01-01
Place of birth: Glasgow Lanarkshire Scotland
Next of kin: Wife,Lillian McCulloch,424 Beverley St., Winnipeg,Manitoba.
Marital status: married
Occupation (attested): Grocery
Occupation (normalized): Working Proprietor (Wholesale or Retail Trade)
Religion: Presbyterian
Date of death:
1917-04-09
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Bois-Carre British Cemetery, IV. A. 4.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 783
Highest Rank:
Corporal
(Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry)
Rank detail
- Private, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Infantry (Army).
- Corporal, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Infantry (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: After reaching the Swischen Stellung trench at Vimy Ridge on the morning of 9th, April 1917, he was shot through the head, and killed, by an enemy sniper’s bullet, while sitting down cleaning his rifle.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
this.
CWGC ID: 618232
LAC ID:
142418
Service file: B6679-S031
Uploader's Notes: Joined the P.P.C.L.I. in August 1914 [an original].
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 Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Corporal Army Canadian Infantry Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-03-22