A white index card containing the name, rank and military history of a soldier of Waterloo County. Card also includes a photograph, a red cross 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, a red cross and a red slash.
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Soldier Information Cards - World War One
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Birley, Cecil George
Private.
Enlisted August 28, 1915 with 84th Infantry Battalion and transferred to 75th Battalion.
Presbyterian.
Born at Alexander, Manitoba June 8, 1892. Educated at Grand View, Tranquility and Paris Plains North Public Schools. Moved to Waterloo County with his parents in 1912.
Unmarried.
His mother is Mrs. Kathleen Birley, R.R.3 Ayr, Ontario.
He left Canada with 84th Battalion June 12, 1916 and after two days' leave in England he was put in training for scout and sniper with 75th Battalion. He went to France about August 1, 1916.
Wounded in action at Somme August 31, 1916 with machine gun bullet through spine. Died September 17, 1916 in Frencham Hospital, Bramshott, England.
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Bish, Edward Noble
Lance Corporal.
Enlisted Sept. 9. 1915 with 71st Infantry Battalion.
Transferred to A Company, 31st Battalion.
Methodist.
Born Waterloo, Ontario, June 2, 1896 and educated at Central School, Waterloo and Kitchener and Waterloo Collegiate and Technical Institute.
His father is Mr. William Bish, Herbert St., Waterloo, Ontario.
He is still in France.
Twice he was wounded once at the Somme and again near Hill 70.
Herbert Starnaman, 54 Braun St., Kitchener.
Private James William "Billy" Burke was born circa 1895 in the United Kingdom. He left the UK for Canada aboard the SS Tunisian, departing Liverpool for Quebec, arriving on May 11, 1907 with his final destination being Stratford, Ontario.
He was traveling with a party of 90 other home children under the care of Annie Macpherson Homes. At some point he moved to the Coombe Home in Hespeler.
He was killed in 1916 at the Somme.
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Burke, Billie.
Private.
He was one of the boys of the Coombe Home, Hespeler.
He was killed at the Somme in 1916.
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Call, George Walter
Captain.
Only son of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Call, 21 Spruce St., Galt.
He was born May 31, 1888 at Toronto, educated at the Dundee Public and High School and at the Normal School at Hamilton.
His parents then moved to Galt and he taught for a while in the Galt Schools.
Later he gave up teaching to study for the Presbyterian ministry.
He took courses at the University of Toronto and at McGill University but before he had completed his studies the war broke out.
He had previous to the outbreak of war been a member of the 29th Regiment and when he enlisted with the 111th Battalion he became Captain of D. Company of Preston.
He was killed in action May 3, 1917 Somme.
He enlisted at Preston, May 23, 1916.
James enlisted August 1914, Winnipeg Manitoba, 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), rank of Private. Transferred to 13th Battalion, (Royal Highlanders) as Lieutenant, Sept. 1915. Promoted Captain, May 1916; Major, Sept. 1916; Lieutenant Colonel, December 1918.
Principal actions: Ypres, Festubert, 1915; Ypres, Somme, 1916; commanding 20th Reserve Battalion (Royal Highlanders, of Canada), Bramshott and Ripon, England. Injured from gunshot wounds three times. Awarded the Military Cross "for conspicuous gallantry in action". Life member of the Military Institute Black Watch Association.
Born July 26, 1889 in Ayr, ON, James was the youngest son of Dr. William Lovett and Jennie Morton. Educated at Galt and Paris Collegiate Institutes, he joined the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Winnipeg. The "Commerce boys" who enlisted were encouraged by the Bank to keep in touch by letters home and consequently the Bank published 2 volumes tracking "their" boys' war record and stories.
James married Margaret Dorothy Watson at her family home, Ayr. They had one son, Robert Edward Lovett. James transferred from Winnipeg to the Bank's Head Office in Toronto where he worked until retirement in 1949.
James passed away December 22, 1984, interred in the Ayr Cemetery.
Source:
The Canadian Bank of Commerce, Letters From the Front - 1914 - 1918, Volumes I and II, Edited by Charles Lyons Foster and William Smith Duthie, 1920.
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Lovett, James H.
Major.
He won the P.T.O. and the Military Cross.
