Clarence Roy Anderson

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

164487

Unit at enlistment:

84th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

November 18th, 1916

Cemetery:

Vimy Memorial - Pas de Calais, France

Commemorated at:

Immanuel Baptist Church, Wesley United Church

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

119 Eagle Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

119 Eagle Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Printer

Employer:

Hurley Printing Co.

Religious denominations:

Baptist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action (Previously reported missing).
Location of Unit at Time of Casualty: Somme (Courcelette).

BX December 11, 1916

Private Clarence Roy Anderson Reported Missing – Was Member of 84th Battalion – Formerly Worked at Hurley’s

Another Brantford boy, Scout Clarence R. Anderson, is reported missing this morning. He was a member of the 84th Battalion and was on reaching England, drafted to another battalion. Before enlisting, he was employed as a printer by the Hurley Printing Company. The word that he was missing was received by his mother, Mrs. William Anderson, 119 Eagle Ave. He was 19 years of age and single.

BX April 24, 1917

Mrs. William Anderson, 119 Eagle Avenue, has received official notification that her son, Clarence Anderson, previously reported wounded on Nov. 18 last has been killed in action. Private Anderson enlisted with the 84th Battalion. Prior to his enlistment, he was an employee of the Hurley Printing Company.

BX April 28, 1917

Today’s casualty list gives Pte. Clarence Roy Anderson of Brantford as having been killed in action. This is thought to refer to Clarence Anderson, formerly of 119 Eagle Avenue. He is a single man and went overseas with a draft from the Dragoons in August 1915.