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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Fort Macleod
• Land Alberta, Canada
• Last residence Strathmore, Alberta, Canada
• Family Son of George Thomas and Ada A. Berry, of Strathmore, Alberta, Canada
• Education Detroit University School, Mich., U.S.A., Upper Canada College, Toronto, and Toronto University. Bachelor of Arts degree

Military service

• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 315th Army Brigade Royal Field Artillery "D" Bty.
• Other data related to military career Served with the Upper Canada College cadets while a student before the war. In June 3 1915 he joined No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in England and went with it to Lemnos, which was a hospital base for the Gallipoli Expedition. When the Hospital was transferred to France he served in it for awhile, but at the end of 1916 began training for a commission in the R.F.A. He reached the front again in June 1917, being appointed to 'D' Battery, 315th Brigade. He had been recommended for the Military Cross.
  to France 1 August 1915;

Death

• Wounded 6 October, near Hooge Crater,while Forward Observation Officer, locating new O.P.
• Type of wounds Died of wounds at n°10 CCS
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - D - 10

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