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The Channel Islands and the Great War
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Le Touret Memorial & Cemetery, Pas de Calais
Commemorated on:
Island (Bailiwick) Memorial, St Peter Port, Guernsey
Elizabeth College, Guernsey. Roll no. 2517
St Martin's Parish Memorial, Guernsey
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record
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Captain Francis William Durand
3rd Bn. attd. 2nd Bn, Royal Munster
Fusiliers
22/12/1914
1914 Star
Brilliant Star of Zanzibar 3rd Class, Order of El Aliyeh
4th Class
Reported in GWP, Saturday, October 30,
1915.
"CAPT. F.W. DURAND. Memorial Tablet Unveiled
in Town Church"
"At the Town Church last evening
the Rev. J. Perry de Putron. M.A. unveiled a memorial
tablet to Captain Francis William Durand of the 3rd
Batt. Royal Munster Fusiliers who was killed in action
on December 22, 1914 at Givenchy, France. Among these
present at the service were widow Mrs. Havilland Durand
(mother), Miss Grace Durand and Mrs A.M. Drake (Sisters)
and Mr. A.M. Colonel C.J. Durand and Misses Durand and
the Misses Hawtrey and Penney."
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From the Elizabeth College Journal:
"Entered Elizabeth College, 1888.
Saw service in Matabele Rebellion, 1896; obtained his
company, 1906.
Gazetted second Lieutenant, 3rd Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
(Militia) in 1891, he joined the Rhodesian Horse in 1985
and served within the Gwelo Field Horse in the Matabele
Campaign of 1897, being awarded the medal and clasp. From
1899 to 1902 he served with the African Transcontinental
Telgraph Survey Through German East Africa, and in the
Tanganyika Concessions Expedition to Kalanga, Congo Free
State. In 1903 he was employed as Secretary and A.D.C.
to the First Minister of the Zanzibar Government.
In 1906 he obtained his company in
the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and was seconded under the
Foreign Office for the above service.
During his service in Zanzibar he was
awarded the Order of El Aliyeh (4th Class) and the Brilliant
Star of Zanzibar (3rd Class).
In September he joined the 2nd Batt.
Royal Munster Fusiliers, and was present at the actions
on the Aisne, the Marne, and at Ypres."
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With thanks to the Elizabeth College, the Guernsey
Press and The Priaux Library, Guernsey
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