Maude Bowman was born in West Montrose, Ontario, on 16 February 1885. Her father was Leander Bowman. When she attested, she was living at the Kingsley Hotel in London, England. Prior to joining the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Maude had served a year doing military nursing in Egypt under the Imperial Government.
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Bowman, Maude
Nurse.
Enlisted April 20, 1915 with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.
Transferred to Canadian Army Medical Corps. and went to France April 1917.
United Brethren.
Born February 16, 1885 two miles south of Winterbourne on the homestead in Woolwich Township.
Graduated from the General and Marine Hospital St. Catherines, Ontario in 1913.
Single.
She served one year in Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe, England.
One year in Alexandria and Port Said, Egypt and two years in France.
She is still with Canadian General Hospital in France.
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Lipps, Charles Gordon
Private.
Enlisted in the spring of 1918 with an Alberta Regiment. Number 3213684.
Evangelical Association.
Born at Wellesley, Ontario educated at Wellesley and at Stratford.
Unmarried.
He is now at Beaver Hut Camp, London, England and is doing office work for the army.
His mother, Mrs. Williams, lives at Wellesley.
Lieutenant Joseph Emmett Stauffer was the son of the late Benjamin and Mary Stauffer (nee Betzner). He was born on October 29, 1874. He was the husband of Emma Stauffer, of 621, 5th Avenue West, Calgary, Alberta.
Stauffer was elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1909 for the Didsbury district.
He was re-elected to a second term in office in the 1913 Alberta legislature, winning with a comfortable majority.
Stauffer enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in March 1916 in Calgary, Alberta. He served overseas with the Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment) 50th Battalion. He kept his seat in the provincial legislature while he was overseas fighting in the war. On April 10, 1917 he was killed in action during the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
According to his attestation paper, he was born in Nokesville, Virginia, USA and had been residing in Didsbury, Alberta.
The information on the Commonwealth Graves Commission website names his parents as the late Benjamin and Mary (nee Betyner) Stauffer. His wife's place of residence was noted as Calgary, Alberta.
The soldier card erroneously identifies him as Joseph Erb Stauffer.
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Stauffer, Joseph Erb
Lieutenant.
A native of Waterloo Country and educated in the Kitchener Collegiate Institute.
He married Miss Ernst of Kitchener and went west.
He became a Member of Provincial Parliament for Alberta.
Enlisted as a Private.
