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Trade listed as Trucker. DOB 11-12-95 (Ontario Birth Registry), born Kincardine. 5 foot 9 1/4 inches. Blue eyes, brown hair. Presbyterian. NOK Robina (Beattie) Hamilton, mother. George Hamilton, father. Enlisted Palmerston 12-2-16 (20 years). On 153rd Nominal Roll 19-2-16, no transfer noted. On 153rd Battalion 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 18th Battalion 14-12-17. GSW compound fracture right leg, amputation left hand 10-4-18. Globe & Mail Casualty List 15-4-18 under Infantry reports 'wounded.' Returned to Canada aboard SS Araquaya, Halifax, N.S. Dec. 1918. Disability: amputation of left hand. Discharged Toronto 21-7-19, Medically Unfit. Ontario Marriage Registry married 11-8-27 to Gladys Maris McBain at Township of Cavan, Durham County. To reside in Palmerston. Department of Veteran Affairs Death Notification, died 29-7-74 Owen Sound. Buried Palmerston Cemetery, Section H, plot 39. Headstone photo courtesy B. Gilbert. File: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 3980 - 43, courtesy Library & Archives Canada. |