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Telma Ernest RACHAR (1894-1974)
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 Trade listed as Salesman. DOB 14-2-94, born Mount Forest. 5 foot 10 inches. Blue eyes, light brown hair. Baptist. NOK Brock Rachar, father. Ida Aldrich Rachar, mother. Enlisted Guelph 20-3-16 (age 22 years 11 months). Enlistment noted 6-4-16 edition Mt Forest Representative. On 153rd Battalion Nominal Roll 25-3-16, no transfer noted. On 153rd Nominal Rolls as published Guelph Mercury 10-6-16 and 1-12-16. Embarked with 153rd Halifax N.S. SS Olympic 29-4-17. Arrived Liverpool 7-5-17. Assigned 25th Reserve for Training and Administration. Taken on Strength 17th CMGC 29-5-18. Taken on Strength 2nd CMGC 22-8-18. Cushnie letter dated 27-10-17: "Yesterday afternoon we also went to the Machine Gun Depot which is stationed here (Seaford)...Rachar and Sedore are about the only Mt Forest boys in it....Alex Keir is also there along with most of the boys who used to belong to the machine gun section of the 153rd."
Cushnie letter 17-11-17: "Ernest Rachar expects to got to France in a draft from the Machine Depot sometime this week." Hospitalized 28-9-18, ulcerated foot. Discharged 6-12-18. Returned to Canada aboard SS Celtic 18-3-19, Halifax, N.S. Demobilized St John's, N.B. 19-3-19. Ontario Marriage Registry #014264 married 12-11-24 to Kathleen Amelia Moore at London, Ontario. Department of Veteran Affairs Notification of Death 4-9-74, buried Mount Pleasant Cemetery, London. Photo courtesy ONGenWeb Project.
File: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 8060 - 53, courtesy Library & Archives Canada.
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