Dennis Hadley Currie participant of World War I
Personal life and death
Currie was married and had two children, son William Ross Curie and daughter Annie Virginia Currie. He suffered from an illness throughout his life, which delayed his graduation from West Point. This illness also caused his early retirement and eventually contributed to Currie's early death at the age of 53 in Piedmont, California on 26 March 1928. He was buried at the San Francisco National Cemetery three days later. Though a lieutenant colonel at the time of his military retirement, he was posthumously advanced to brigadier general in June 1930 having served temporarily at that rank from October 1918 to June 1919 during World War I.