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Gunner John Thomas Brocklehurst Regt # 1262724
Donated by Frank Connors
| John Thomas Brocklehurst was born in St.John's on 11
September 1881, he was the fourth son of Charles Frederick Brocklehurst
and Mary Ann Dunn. John was a printer in St.John's in 1904 and moved to
Sydney NS shortly thereafter, where most of his children were born, and
by 1913 he was a Land Surveyor at Trenton, Nova Scotia. John enlisted 30
may 1916 in New Glasgow, NS in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces.
He was described on the Attestation Paper as being 29 years old, fair complexion,
blue eyes and brown hair, standing 5 ft 8 in tall with a 37 in chest. John
married the former Ida Skinner of St.John's and the couple eventually moved
to Montreal by at least 1926. John died at Montreal in 1959.
John was the brother of Edward Stanislaus Brocklehurst, Samuel Stephen Brocklehurst and George Augustus Brocklehurst. The brothers also had a first-cousin, George Joseph Brocklehurst, born in May 1879 at Carbonear, who enlisted at Montreal in the CEF on 4 October 1916 ( their cousin George also had a brother-in-law, Leonard P Burke, who married his sister Adelaide, and who was Lt.Col. in the First Nfld Regiment). |
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