Frederic C. (Crawford) Curry

Born in 1891, Frederic C. (Crawford) Curry is remembered for From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian Brigade, a World War I memoir/history drawn from the early experience of Canadian troops overseas. The book follows the brigade from mobilization in Canada to the fighting around Ypres, giving it the immediacy of someone writing close to the events themselves.

Because reliable biographical information about Curry is limited in the sources available here, it is safest to describe him primarily through his work. His writing has endured because it offers a clear, direct window into the service, movement, and battlefield conditions faced by Canadian soldiers in the first phase of the war.

Curry died in 1965. For listeners interested in personal military narratives and early Canadian war history, his work remains a useful and engaging period account.