A white index card containing the name, rank and military history of a soldier of Waterloo County. Card also includes a photograph of Robert Ainslie and a red slash.
Kitchener Public Library - Soldier Information Card Collection - World War One
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A white index card containing the name, rank and military history of a soldier of Waterloo County. Card also includes a photograph of Robert Ainslie and a red slash.
Robert Ainslie and his wife Annie Bauchop are buried in Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge. He is buried with his son who also served in the Military in World War Two. The headstone in Mount View Cemetery reads: Ainslie/ Robert Ainslie/ 1882-1962/ Annie Bauchop his wife/ 1884-1931/ Robert (Scotty) Ainslie/ 1904-1948/ (Veteran's cross)/ [A] Father/ [B] Mother/ Annie Bauchop/ 1884-1931/ [C] Scotty /.
Robert Ainslie worked as a maltman and was married in 1904 in Sauchie, Alloa, Clackmannan, Scotland before coming to Canada. The Scottish Marriage Registration of 5 Feb 1904 states the the marriage was conducted at Sauchie, Alloa, after Banns according to the Forms of the Church of Scotland, by George Murray, Minister, between Robert Ainslie, 21, bachelor, maltman, 16 Primrose Street, Alloa, and Annie Bauchop, 19, spinster, millworker, Fairfield, Sauchie, Alloa. Witnesses were given as: David Ainslie and Mary Bauchop. The marriage was registered on 8 February 1904, at Alloa, by Ross Grant, Registrar in the Parish of Alloa in the County of Clackmannan, (Registration District 465/A, Entry 19.)
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Soldier Information Cards - World War One
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Ainslie, Robert
Sapper
Enlisted October 1, 1915 with 2nd Pioneers and transferred to 9th Engineers.
Presbyterian.
Born March 31, 1882 in Alloa, Scotland, educated and married in Scotland. He has four children.
He was discharged March 30, 1919 and lives at 100 Victoria Avenue, Galt, Ontario.
He went to England December 14, 1915 and to France on March 8, 1916. He was wounded in June 1916.
Jean Ainslie, 100 Victoria Ave., Galt.
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Thomas Duncan Clara (service number 602883) was the son of Ann and the late Thomas Clara, of Consort, Alberta; late of Ladybank, Fife, Scotland. Private Clara died on March 29, 1917, at the age of 22, and had been serving with the 2nd Divison of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. He was buried in the Abbeville Communal Extension Cemetery, approximately 80 kilometres south of Boulogne on the road to Paris.
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Clara, Thomas
Private.
Was attached to the 29th Regiment and enlisted with the 34th Battalion at Galt, August 10, 1915.
He was born in Scotland and his next of kin is Mrs. Ann Clara, 57 North Water St., Galt, Ontario.
He gave his life.
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Soldier Information Cards - World War One
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Deal, Albert Edward
Private.
He was attached to 108th Regiment and enlisted with 118th Battalion on October 11, 1915.
He was born in England.
He was killed in action in France.
His wife who used to reside at 102 Ahrens St. W., Kitchener, has left the locality.
He was buried in the British Cemetery Abbeville, France.
At the time of his death he was attached to the 31st Battalion.
His widow now lives in Brighton, England.
Anglican.
