Extract from E-mail April 2003, Bob
Currie,
Strathaven. Scotland (61-70)
"Three Currie Brothers
who were educated at Sacred Heart School. The brothers lived at 65 Reid
Street, Bridgeton. Note that John and Alex are wearing knickerbocker
suits.
James the eldest, seated centre,
emigrated to Quebec, Canada and like many thousands of others in the
British Dominion he answered the call and as a Private in the 13th
Battalion Quebec Regiment (which formed part of the British Expeditionary
Force) fought and died at the second battle of Ypres on 24th April 1915,
when the Kaiser introduced the terror of poison gas on the Ypres
Salient.
James was then 25 years of age and only one of the many east-end lads who
died at Ypres on the Western Front and whose names are inscribed among the
56,000 with no known grave"
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cc 1904. State studio photograph
The Currie Brothers John, James & Alex
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