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Piercy, Chesley Hickman

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Identification

Regimental number: 1009912
Battalion / unit at enlistment: 249th Bn
U of S affiliation at enlistment: no degree or certificate, but had been a student
Birth: 1 Oct 1892, Fortune, Newfoundland
College Building memorial: Second floor, northeast
Slide number(s): HR-2167, HR-2168
Notes: RoS has wrong name

U of S attendance

Entry date College Left - date Left - reason Degree Degree - date Notes
1913 Arts        
1913 Law        

Military service - attestation

Volunteer/drafted: volunteer
Attestation place: Assiniboia
Attestation date: 1 Apr 1916
Present address: Assiniboia, SK
Occupation: school principal
Religion: Methodist
Age: 23 years, 6 months
Height (inches): 70.00
Chest expansion (inches): 36.00
Amount of expansion (inches): 2.00

Military service - assignments

Group Type Location First known date Last known date Reason for end of assignment Notes
249th Bn           
28th Bn            CB

Rank

Rank Date Notes
Private  

Family

Mother: Piercy, Jean
Mother's Address: Oxbow, SK, Canada (1916)

Non-military addresses

Address Occupation Earliest date Latest date Source Notes
Oxbow  student 1913 1914 U of S Calendar
Prince Albert    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 7680 - 37
College Building list #: 325
Roll of Honour list #:
Roll of Service (1928) #: 253
Long List #: 269

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