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Lewis, Claude Elvis

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Identification

Regimental number: 267125
Battalion / unit at enlistment: RFC
U of S affiliation at enlistment: no degree or certificate, but had been a student
Birth: 29 Sep 1895, Allendale, MO, U.S.A.
College Building memorial: First floor, northeast
Slide number(s): HR-1126, HR-1127

U of S attendance

Entry date College Left - date Left - reason Degree Degree - date Notes
1914 Arts 1922 grad B.A. 1922

Military service - attestation

Volunteer/drafted: volunteer
Attestation place: Wadena
Attestation date: 31 Jan 1916
Present address: Clair, SK
Occupation: schoolmaster
Religion: Baptist
Age: 20 years, 4 months
Height (inches): 68.75
Chest expansion (inches): 37.50
Amount of expansion (inches): 5.00

Military service - assignments

Group Type Location First known date Last known date Reason for end of assignment Notes
reg army      Jan 1916    
RFC            RAF in RoS

Military service - end

Date Location Reason Notes
31 Dec 1918   discharged

Rank

Rank Date Notes
CSM   NA

Family

Spouse: Lewis, Alice
Home address: SK, Canada (1916)

Non-military addresses

Address Occupation Earliest date Latest date Source Notes
Clair  student 1914 1915 U of S Calendar
Clair  student 1920 1921 U of S Calendar
Nutana Collegiate, Saskatoon  teacher 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 5618 - 54
College Building list #: 130
Roll of Honour list #:
Roll of Service (1928) #: 202
Long List #: 209

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