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Willing, Norman Gillespie

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Identification

Regimental number: 2193302
Battalion / unit at enlistment: 196th Bn
U of S affiliation at enlistment: not yet a student, though was later
Birth: 22 Mar 1899, Olds, AB, Canada
College Building memorial: Second floor, northwest
Slide number(s): HR-2118, HR-2119
Notes: collegiate student on enlist; DuVal draft

U of S attendance

Entry date College Left - date Left - reason Degree Degree - date Notes
1919 Arts        

Military service - attestation

Volunteer/drafted: volunteer
Attestation place: Saskatoon
Attestation date: 6 Mar 1917
Present address: Saskatoon, SK
Occupation: collegiate student
Religion: Presbyterian
Age: 18 years
Height (inches): 68.25
Chest expansion (inches): 36.00
Amount of expansion (inches): 3.00

Military service - assignments

Group Type Location First known date Last known date Reason for end of assignment Notes
3rd CERB   Seaford, UK      
196th Bn      March 1917     DuVal draft
PPCLI           

Rank

Rank Date Notes
Sapper   RoS

Family

Father: Willing, Thomas Nathaniel
Father's Address: 417 Clarence, Saskatoon, SK, Canada (1917)

Non-military addresses

Address Occupation Earliest date Latest date Source Notes
Saskatoon  student 1919 1921 U of S Calendar
Admiral    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 10418 - 49
College Building list #: 289
Roll of Honour list #:
Roll of Service (1928) #: 306
Long List #: 333

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