Born on 26 April 1894 in Lancashire, England - son of Elizabeth Boydell, Hawkesbury, Ontario - attestation paper provides the following: present address in Hawkesbury, Ontario, trade as tester in a pulp mill, single, no current or previous military service, Church of England, height of 5 feet 3 inches, chest of 36 inches fully expanded, light complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair.
Joined the 77th Canadian Infantry Battalion in Ottawa, Ontario, on 7 December 1915 (number 145611) - taken on the strength of the 38th Canadian Infantry Battalion in England on 6 July 1916 - landed in France with the 38th Battalion on 13 August 1916 - wounded on 18 November 1916 - invalided to England on 6 December 1916 - transferred to the Canadian Forestry Corps on 26 October 1917 - returned to Canada on 28 March 1919.
[also An Historical Sketch of the Seventy-Seventh Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force (Ottawa: War Publications Limited, 1926]
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