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Trade listed as Student. DOB 9-5-98, born Mount Forest. (Ontario Birth Registry) 5 foot 6 1/2 inches. Grey eyes, fair hair. Methodist. NOK Moses Morgan, father. Sarah Jane Price, mother. Enlisted Mt Forest 13-12-15 (age 18 years). On 153rd Battalion Nominal Roll 19-2-16, no transfers 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. Taken on Strength 18th Battalion 29-3-18. Hospitalized 12-4-18, severe Pleursy. Diagnosed TB 26-8-18. Stamp on Attestation Papers: Invalided to Canada for further medical treatment aboard SS Neuralia 1-10-18, Halifax, N.S. Disability: TB. Posted to CHMC 5-10-18. Byron Sanitorium London 29-11-18. Discharged Medically Unfit London 2-12-18. Ontario Marriage Registry: married 16-5-23 to Gladys W. Hawkins at Essex. Notation on Service File: died 15-1-30. Ontario Death Registry: died 15-1-30, cancer of stomach. attending physician A.R. Perry. Buried Mount Forest Cemetery 18-1-30. Prior to his death employed as Customs Inspector, Windsor, Ontario. File: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 6358 - 20, courtesy Library & Archives Canada. |