steven belfast Posted 13 September , 2012 Share Posted 13 September , 2012 Can anyone help me with this as my ancestry acess is UK and Ireland only, friend of mines great great uncle who was from 9th Street Shankill Road Belfast who is buried in Hinge Military Cemetery and was in the 13th Batt Canadian Infantry his name was Edmund Rainey army number 24524, they have just discovered this and are very puzzled as to the Canadian link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulsterlad2 Posted 13 September , 2012 Share Posted 13 September , 2012 http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=589935&interval=20&&PHPSESSID=ougmhfhtdu035rcfje87vud2r1 Steven, here's his attestation forms. Many men from Uk were in the CEF. My GG Uncle William (Belfast) & GG Uncle Robert (Lisburn) being examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss002d6252 Posted 13 September , 2012 Share Posted 13 September , 2012 His enlistment record is online http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=3nt78cfbqlhqbgrdpatgicd2q3&q1=rainey&q2=edmund&q3=&interval=20 He was living in Canada at the beginning of the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulsterlad2 Posted 13 September , 2012 Share Posted 13 September , 2012 Steven. He died of wounds at No.2 Canadian Field Ambulance. If you pm me your email address I'll send you a couple of documents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven belfast Posted 13 September , 2012 Author Share Posted 13 September , 2012 Thank you both for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W.J.Caughey Posted 14 September , 2012 Share Posted 14 September , 2012 Steven, have a few snippets from newspaper + photo will email you later incase you haven't seen them. Very interesting, according to obit seems he was married to a Maggie sometime between 1901-11 who died and had two children, baffled me for a bit last night, with not married on attestion papers and just Mother & Father on CWGC another two children lost both parents (very sad). Walter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven belfast Posted 14 September , 2012 Author Share Posted 14 September , 2012 Got your email walter and robert many many thanks to you both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hen190782 Posted 16 September , 2012 Share Posted 16 September , 2012 Steven Do you think this might your man? If so, I will send the higher res version to you. Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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