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Soldier Information Cards - World War One
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Brubacher, Lloyd
Private.
Lloyd Brubacher third son of Mr. and Mrs Auson Brubacher, St. Jacobs, was born April the first 1894. He received his education at the St. Jacobs Public School, and after spending two years on the home farm he took up electrical work in Doerr and Bremners shop in Waterloo, then at the
Power Station at Guelph, next with the Canadian General Electric in Toronto, and lastly with the Hydro Commission in the London district.
On April 2nd he married Miss Annie Jarvis of Toronto.
He enlisted and trained at Niagara and Exhibition Camp, Toronto. He left for overseas on Aug. 4th 1916, and continued his training at Chisledon and Bramshott, transferring to the 75th Battalion and then to the Canadian Engineers. He crossed to France on Aug. 4th 1916, and saw active service with the Engineer Corps along the Belgium border, but mostly in the Somme sector. On the evening of the 24th of Nov. 1916, while repairing barbwire entanglements in "No Man's Land" he was struck in the abdomen by a sniper's bullet. He was taken to Warloy Field Hospital, at the time 20 miles behind the lines, where he succumbed to his injuries next day, Nov. 25.
He was buried in the military cemetery at Warloy, France.