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World War One Roll of Honour

Private Sam Roy Garner served as Roy Cromarty
December 18, 1917
47th Battalion C.E.F.
Service Number 790949. Originally enlisted with the 131st Battalion C.E.F.
Bruay Communcal Cemetery Extension, France. Age 34
Next of Kin unknown

Sam Roy Garner, service number 646125, joined the 158th Battalion C.E.F. April 7, 1916 and recorded his next of kin as his sister-in-law Mrs. Barbara Garner, Whonnock, B.C. The attestation form records his birth in Chilliwack August 8, 1883. He was later discharged and rejoined as Roy Cromarty providing R.C. Cromarty as his father on his attestation form but upon his death a Chilliwack Progress article records Mr. and Mrs. S.E. [Samuel Ephraim] Cromarty as his parents. However, correspondence between Whonnock historian Fred Braches and Jane Cromarty records that Roy Cromarty who was killed overseas December 18, 1917 was actually a Garner who is buried overseas as Roy Cromarty and recorded correctly on both the Whonnock Memorial and the Chilliwack Memorial as a Garner. However, the Maple Ridge War Memorial records his name as R. Cromarty.

 

Private David George

April 23, 1915
4th Battalion C.E.F. (1st Central Ontario Regiment)
Service Number 19076. Originally enlisted with the 9th Battalion C.E.F.
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Age 21
Son of David and Margaret George, Chilliwack, British Columbia.

David George was a railroader and was one of two brothers that served during the First World War. He was reported missing after action during the Second Battle of Ypres and is commemorated on the memorial to the missing in Flanders at Menin Gate, Ieper. His brother Norman survived the war.

 

Lance Corporal Leo Harold Grossman
January 7, 1916
5th Battalion East Kent Regiment (The Buffs)
Service Number T/1335
Amara War Cemetery, Iraq. Age 29
Son of the late Julius and Julia E. Grossman, Chilliwack, B.C.

In August 1914, while on a motorcycle tour of the United Kingdom, Leo Grossman, a member of Chilliwack's 104th Regiment, joined "C" Company of the Buffs. On October 29, 1914, Grossman's regiment sailed for India and was stationed at Kamptee in Madras. In February, Grossman as one of his company's best shots was stationed with 19 other "Buffs" at the Pachmachi School of Musketry. Promoted to Lance Corporal, Grossman then sailed with his unit to Basra where they arrived on December 8, 1915 and took part in the actions to relieve the forces at Kut-el-Amara. On January 7, 1916, Leo Grossman was killed in action at Shaikh Saad, Iraq, formerly, Mesopotamia.

 

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