I was driving home on Monday and found this in a antique mall under a pile of trash. It truly pissed me off to see this just tossed in the box. This is one purchase i was very happy to make.
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2Originally posted by gary cain View Posti was driving home on monday and found this in a antique mall under a pile of trash. It truly pissed me off to see this just tossed in the box. This is one purchase i was very happy to make.
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Thank you for that. I hadn't even started researching the man yet. He was quite old at his time of enlistment. I wonder if he was a influenza casualty?
Originally posted by RobDekk View Post
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Henderson died after the war from illness due to military service.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/m...2jdheocn6v65f4Attached Files
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Thank you Rob,
That is most appreciated!
Originally posted by RobDekk View PostHenderson died after the war from illness due to military service.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/m...2jdheocn6v65f4
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Interestingly, Henry Young was the man with the adjacent serial number - 526893. He also enlisted in Montreal in the CAMC, died in 1920 of pleurisy, at age 39.
I'd gues that both were deemed to old or perhaps not fit enough to serve in the infantry and were put to work as ward orderlies or something similar which exposed them to various diseases. Easy to see how TB would be directly attributable to war service in a medical unit but I wonder whether Young's 'pleurisy' was of similar origin.
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