Victory Medal: Lieut. F.S. Rankin - Canadian Engineers, attached Royal Flying Corps. KIA 23/10/1916
Impressed to: LIEUT. F.S. RANKIN.
(Medal issued off the Canadian Engineers - Army Roll, hence no R.F.C.)
Franklin Sharp Rankin, born 31st July 1894 at Woodstock, New Brunswick. on of W. D. Rankin, M.B., C.M. (Edin.), and Harriet Jennie Rankin, of 280, Main St., Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada.
Prior military - Royal Military College - 3 years /28th New Brunswick Dragoons - 2 years
Lieutenant Army Canadian Engineers Lieutenant Air Force Royal Flying Corps 18th Squadron.
RMC Graduate May 1914. First Contingent with 1st Field Company, Canadian Engineers 1914. Transferred to RFC 1916.
Twice wounded, three confirmed kills,
Killed in Action 23/10/1916. One of 46 missing airmen of
the First World War.
Commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial. Photo courtesy of ancestry.
From Gentleman Cadet to No Known Grave (By Major Andrew B. Godefroy, CD, MA, Ph.D.), see link below (can also e-mail the doc if the link is iffy...).
