Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Mr J. Curtis.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Son of Mr. J. Curtis, of 59, The Crescent, Moira, Burton-on-Trent.

There is a family grave in Donsithorpe Cemetery which bears his name with the following epitaph:

In Loving Memory of 'Sonny' Micheal
Killed at Martinpuich Dec 23rd
1916 and buried at Contalmason
Aged 19 years


Coalville Times article - Friday January 26th, 1917

ASHBY SOLDIER KILLED

The official casualty lists published on Tuesday morning contained the name of an Ashby soldier, Private M. T. Curtis, of the R.A.M.C. as having been killed.

Research undertaken and submitted by Andy Murby 19/10/2017