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Lewis, Henry Yarwood

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Identification

Regimental number: 411090
Battalion / unit at enlistment: 1st Univ Co
U of S affiliation at enlistment: had degree or certificate
Killed, died or wounded: shell-shocked
Birth: 29 Aug 1893, Grenfell, SK, Canada
College Building memorial: First floor, northeast
Slide number(s): HR-1117, HR-1118, HR-1119
Notes: Henry and John were brothers

U of S attendance

Entry date College Left - date Left - reason Degree Degree - date Notes
1910 Arts 1914 grad B.Sc. 1914

Military service - attestation

Volunteer/drafted: volunteer
Attestation place: Saskatoon
Attestation date: 5 Apr 1915
Present address: Saskatoon, SK
Occupation: student
Religion: blank
Age: 21 years, 8 months
Height (inches): 69.00
Chest expansion (inches): 37.00
Amount of expansion (inches): 3.00

Military service - assignments

Group Type Location First known date Last known date Reason for end of assignment Notes
1st Univ Co           
PPCLI           

Military service - end

Date Location Reason Notes
    discharged ill health

Rank

Rank Date Notes
Private  

Wounds

Wound type Date Notes
shell shock   not in RoS

Family

Father: Lewis, John
Father's Address: 1364 Ray St., Regina, SK, Canada (1915)
Father's Occuption: minister

Non-military addresses

Address Occupation Earliest date Latest date Source Notes
Saskatoon  student 1910 1914 U of S Calendar
c/o J.G. Lewis, Prov. Lab, Regina    1928   1928 list
1928 list = "List of Students who enlisted during the Great War," U of S Archives. The list was completed after F. Underhill went to the University of Toronto in 1927; probably in conjunction with the Memorial Gates. Some of the addresses may be from an earlier date.

Sources

National Archives reference: RG 150 Box 5623 - 19
College Building list #: 123
Roll of Honour list #: 117
Roll of Service (1928) #: 203
Long List #: 210

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