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Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

2011.039.019

Title

Frank Stovell in either France or Belgium during the First World War.

Date

[1916 - 1918].

Description

Black and white photograph of Frank Stovell standing in front of a building in either France or Belgium during the First World War. He is wearing a military uniform with a messenger-style bag across his chest diagonally, with the bag on the right. His hands are behind his back, and his left foot is out from his body with his left knee bent. Behind him is a brick building with shutters on the windows, and a vine growing up out of the cobblestones along the side of the building. In the background to his right is a wooden box.

People/Subject

Stovell, Frank

Frank Stovell was born on September 22, 1884 in Croyden, London, England. He emigrated to Canada in 1912 with his brothers Samuel, Ernest, and Harry and acquired land on the northeast corner of 48th Avenue and 208th Street. Frank served in the Canadian Engineers during the First World War, joining in 1916. After the war, he decided to remain in England, but he came back to Langley in 1947. At this time he bought the Charles Rooke farm, north of the original property his brothers kept, and lived there with his wife, Dorothy Susan (nee Lawrence). The farm is now part of Newlands Golf Course. He died in 1963 and was buried in the Murrayville Cemetery.

Information source: "From Prairie to City" by Warren Sommer; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144894182/frank-stovell; https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/ww1-canadian-soldiers/frank-stovell.html; http://www.bcgolfhouse.com/newlands-gcc-70th-anniversary

World War, 1914-1918

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