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  • Mussoorie
  • India
  • Only Son of John PenneFather Vansittart, P.W.D India, and of M. I. Vansittart
  • Upper Canada College; Royal Military College; applied science 1904-1905; McGill University Montreal (engineering)
  • Electrical engineer with the Crane Falls Power and Irrigation Co., Idaho
  • Great grandson of Admiral Henry Vansittart, of Bisham Abbey, Berkshire, England.

Military service

  • 7 December 1914, Toronto
  • Major
  • Mentioned in Despatches
  • 4th Brigade Canadian Field Artillery 13th Battery
  • Enlisted with the 14th Batty, Lt; Captain November 1914; 13th Batty., Major, December 1914; Commanding Officer; to France September 1915; mentioned in despatches June 1916.

Death

  • 14 May, near Dickebusch
  • Died of shell wounds in n°10 CCS
  • 31
  • V - A - 37

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