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30/12/2015
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30/12/2015
30/12/2015 The CWGC record Private Cecil Barton Carr as the son of Cecil and Annie Carr, of Main Street, Maghera, Co. Derry.
30/12/2015 Private Carr is buried in Roupy Communal Cemetery. Roupy is a commune nine kilometres west of St Quentin, in the Department of Aisne. The cemetery contains only 12 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war,
30/12/2015 Private Cecil Barton Carr was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on 1st April 1917. He was 19 years old.
30/12/2015 Cecil Carr enlisted in Omagh. He was living in Magherafelt at the time.
30/12/2015 His father remarried on 14th November 1912 in Magherafelt. He married Elizabeth Delaney.
30/12/2015 The 1911 census lists Cecil ‘Carre’ as age 12 boarding at house 15 in Rainey, Magherafelt, Londonderry along with his father and his younger brother John. According to the census, Cecil was born in Glasgow. His mother had died.
30/12/2015 Cecil’s mother, Annie Carr, died on 22nd April 1909 in Magherafelt. She was 32 years old.
30/12/2015 The 1901 census lists his father boarding at Great Georges Street, Coagh. He was married and worked as a professional singer.
30/12/2015 Cecil Barton Carr was born on 6th Feb 1898 in Horton, near Bradford, York, England.
30/12/2015 On 26/12/1896 Cecil Barton Carr married Annie Harper in Glasgow. He was 23 and a Railway Servant. His parents are named as Henry George (deceased) a theatre manager and Annie Carr, nee Hatch. (to be confirmed / corrected)
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