Portrait of Robert Jackson Correll, c.1916
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A black and white photograph of Robert Jackson Correll.
- Notes
- Robert Jackson Correll of the 5th C.M.R. was born at Port Whitby on June 27, 1890. He was wounded at the Battle of the Somme in World War One, on September 16, 1916, and was evacuated to a hospital in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England where he died on September 23, 1916. He is buried at Lodge Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, England. He was Whitby's first soldier to die from wounds in the First World War and is commemorated by a memorial window in St. John's Anglican Church, Port Whitby.
This photo is from a war memorial of Sons of England Lodge. - Date of Original
- c.1916
- Dimensions
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Width: 10 cm
Height: 13 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 10cm
Image Height: 13cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 29-002-052
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.88342 Longitude: -78.93287
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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