JOSEPH HENRY GEORGE

Regimental # VR/431

son of William George and Margaret (Pellerin) George
of Port Felix
baptised at St. Joseph's Port Felix February 22, 1893
Date of birth given on Attestation papers September 4, 1892
(1901 census gives a date of February 18, 1894)

served in World War I

Joseph George drowned in a boating accident September 12, 1915 in Sydney Harbour, NS. According to his military records he fell out of a canoe. His body was never recovered. His name appears on the Halifax Memorial in Point Pleasant Park.

View Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry

Veteran's Affairs Canada - Virtual Memorial
(appears as Joseph Harold George)

National Archives of Canada
Soldiers of the First World War — Canadian Expeditionary Force

 

 

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