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Trade listed as Farm Hand. DOB 17-3-93 born Dundas, Wentworth. NOK Dr. Gilmore,Guelph Prison Farm, friend. 5 foot 6 1/2 inches, light brown eyes, brown hair. Roman Catholic. First enlistment with 1st Battalion Valcartier 19-9-14 (6171). Notes service in 30th Wellington Regigment. Sailed with 1st Battalion 4-10-14 aboard SS Laurentic. Medical Board Netheravon, England discharged medically unfit,hemeroids. Returned to Canada aboard SS Missinablie 13-3-15. Discharged Halifax 23-3-15, medically unfit. 2nd Enlistment with 71st Battalion Guelph 29-9-15, (126931) does not list prior military service. Struck off Stength 71st Battalion at Woodstock, 2-12-15 as Deserter. Enlisted Guelph 27-10-16 (24 years 7 months), lists prior service in 71st Battalion. On 153rd Battalion Nominal Roll 5-2-16, no transfer noted. On 153rd Nominal Rolls as published Guelph Mercury 1-12-16. Embarked with 153rd Halifax N.S. SS Olympic 29-4-17. Arrived Liverpool 7-5-17. Assigned 25th Reserves for Training and Administration. Proceeded to France with 18th Battalion 29-3-18. Taken on Strength 78th Battalion 2-4-18. Shrapnel wounds from artillery, wounds to thigh, foot and right leg. Globe & Mail under Canadian Casualties 6-5-18 under Infantry wounded. Returned to Canada aboard SS Northland, 26-12-18, Halifax, N.S. Demobilized Toronto 24-1-19. Ontario Marriage Registry (626859) marriage 28-10-19 to Irene Meyers at Guelph. Veterans Death Card: died 27-9-39 at Westminister Veterans Hospital London, cause Hodgkins Disease, not war service related. Buried Marymount Cemetery, Block B Grave 172, Guelph. Headstone photo: B. Gilbert.
File: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 160 - 47. Courtesy Library & Archives Canada. |
153rd (Wellington) Battalion C.E.F.
