Thursday 20 December 2007

Private Samuel Milford Coupland

Born on 23 December 1891 in Port Hope, Ontario - son of Samuel Alfred Coupland, Port Hope, Ontario - at time of conscription in 1918: present address in Port Hope, Ontario, single, Methodist, trade as tinsmith, no current or previous military service, height of 5 feet 7 inches, chest of 34 inches fully expanded, dark complexion, grey eyes, brown hair.

Conscripted into the 1st Depot Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, in Kingston, Ontario, on 25 January 1918 (number 3056417) - taken on the strength of the 38th Battalion, CEF, on 9 or 10 August 1918 - wounded on 2 September 1918 - invalided to England on 6 September 1918.

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