Quinton was a Home Child brought to Canada in 1909 through the Church of England, Waifs and Strays.
BHC Registry ID #: 5041
Sending or Escorting Organization: Waifs & Strays Society
Canadian Distribution Home Name/Address: Gibbs' Home, Sherbrooke, Quebec
Age at Emigration: 13 Ship Sailed: Virginian
Departure Date: 30 April 1909 Port of Departure: Liverpool
Arrival Date: 08 May 1909 Port of Arrival: Quebec
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
DURWARD, QUENTIN, Private, No. 9552, 3rd Battalion (Queen's Own Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, son of William Durward, Manager, Anglo-American Cable Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 24 Oct. 1895; educated Northumberland; went to Toronto, Canada; joined the Queen's Own Rifles of Toronto at the end of 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; unmarried. His Captain wrote: "He was a splendid soldier, always first and never shirking his duty."
BHC Registry ID #: 5041
Sending or Escorting Organization: Waifs & Strays Society
Canadian Distribution Home Name/Address: Gibbs' Home, Sherbrooke, Quebec
Age at Emigration: 13 Ship Sailed: Virginian
Departure Date: 30 April 1909 Port of Departure: Liverpool
Arrival Date: 08 May 1909 Port of Arrival: Quebec
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
DURWARD, QUENTIN, Private, No. 9552, 3rd Battalion (Queen's Own Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, son of William Durward, Manager, Anglo-American Cable Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 24 Oct. 1895; educated Northumberland; went to Toronto, Canada; joined the Queen's Own Rifles of Toronto at the end of 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; unmarried. His Captain wrote: "He was a splendid soldier, always first and never shirking his duty."
Quinton was a Home Child brought to Canada in 1909 through the Church of England, Waifs and Strays.
BHC Registry ID #: 5041
Sending or Escorting Organization: Waifs & Strays Society
Canadian Distribution Home Name/Address: Gibbs' Home, Sherbrooke, Quebec
Age at Emigration: 13 Ship Sailed: Virginian
Departure Date: 30 April 1909 Port of Departure: Liverpool
Arrival Date: 08 May 1909 Port of Arrival: Quebec
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
DURWARD, QUENTIN, Private, No. 9552, 3rd Battalion (Queen's Own Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, son of William Durward, Manager, Anglo-American Cable Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 24 Oct. 1895; educated Northumberland; went to Toronto, Canada; joined the Queen's Own Rifles of Toronto at the end of 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; unmarried. His Captain wrote: "He was a splendid soldier, always first and never shirking his duty."
BHC Registry ID #: 5041
Sending or Escorting Organization: Waifs & Strays Society
Canadian Distribution Home Name/Address: Gibbs' Home, Sherbrooke, Quebec
Age at Emigration: 13 Ship Sailed: Virginian
Departure Date: 30 April 1909 Port of Departure: Liverpool
Arrival Date: 08 May 1909 Port of Arrival: Quebec
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
DURWARD, QUENTIN, Private, No. 9552, 3rd Battalion (Queen's Own Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, son of William Durward, Manager, Anglo-American Cable Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 24 Oct. 1895; educated Northumberland; went to Toronto, Canada; joined the Queen's Own Rifles of Toronto at the end of 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; unmarried. His Captain wrote: "He was a splendid soldier, always first and never shirking his duty."
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