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From: "diana lea" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] England ancesters fighting WW I for Canada
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:50:18 +1000
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Hello Anne,

My father supposedly 'ran away' from England to Canada in his teens, having
(according to my mother much later in life) put his age *up* not down. It
was
always a joke in the family that he didn't really know how old he really
was, as
he altered his birth certificate so many times in his life, putting it up
when he was
young, and down when he got old, according to what he wanted people to
think!!

The story as I knew it was that he had gone there to work on the Canadian
Pacific Railway
although I think it was already finished by this time (probably abt: 1910 -
1914). However,
whatever his real reason for going, he was there either at the outbreak of,
or during,
WW1, and he joined up with the Canadian Mounties in the Fort Gary Horse.
At the end of the war he was demobbed in London, and never went back to
Canada, although he
always wanted to. Many years later we came to Australia instead.

Best wishes from Diana in Cairns


----- Original Message -----
From: anne nazari <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [CHS] England ancesters fighting WW I for Canada


> Hi to Susan and All, I too have the same quandary. Where does one obtain
> the answers?
>
> > Does anyone know why some of the England countrymen went to Canada and
> > fought for Canada during WW I ?
>
> One of my people joined up at Valcartier, was assigned to the Lord
> Strathconer's Horse Corps. He embarked for France on 4th May 1915, was
> wounded on 2nd June 1915, and died of head and leg injuries in France on
9th
> June 1915, just one month after leaving Canada.
>
> This man, on attestation, gave his age as 10 years younger than he was,
and
> stated he was not married. Yet he had a wife and 10 children in England.
>
> The detective in me wants to know the reasons for the move, whilst the
> cynical part of me wonders if this was the reason he left England.
>
> Cheers, Anne.
>
>
>
>
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