Sunday 10 June 2007

Private Edwin Bradford

Born on 6 October 1899 in Jasper, Ontario - son of Theopholas Bradford, Jasper, Ontario - attestation form provides the following: present address in Smiths Falls, Ontario, trade as liveryman, single, no current or previous military service, Methodist, height of 5 feet 8.5 inches, chest of 37 inches fully expanded, fair complexion, gray eyes, light hair.

Enlisted in (has the two-page attestation paper) the 1st Depot Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, in Kingston, Ontario, on 7 January 1918 (number 3055098) - taken on the strength of the 38th Canadian Infantry Battalion in France on 10 or 11 October 1918 - struck off the strength of the 38th Battalion on 16 June 1919.

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