Born on 29 January 1893 in Pembroke, Ontario - son of Mrs. A. Briese, Pembroke, Ontario - recruitment form provides the following: present address in Pembroke, Ontario, single, Lutheran, trade as box factory hand, no current or previous military service, height of 5 feet 11 inches, chest of 37 inches fully expanded, fresh complexion, hazel eyes, light brown hair.
Conscripted into the 2nd Depot Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, in Ottawa, Ontario, on 1 February 1918 (number 3320470) - taken on the strength of the 38th Battalion in France on 17 or 18 August 1918 - struck off the strength of the 38th Battalion on 16 June 1919.
Died in 1956 - buried in Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Pembroke, Ontario.
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