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Ernest Pifher

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
503051
Unit at enlistment: 
Canadian Engineers Training Depot
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
No
Date of death: 
October 16th, 1916
Cemetery: 
Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension - Somme, France - IV.C.9.
Commemorated at: 
St. John's Anglican Church
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Norfolk
Birth city: 
Simcoe, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
19 Richardson Street, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
19 Richardson Street, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Clerk
Religious denominations: 
Church of England
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
21
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Letters and documents

Circumstances of Casualty: Died of Wounds 2/1 South Midland Casualty Clearing Station Special Hospital, Warloy.

BX October 27, 1916

Sapper E. Pifher Died of Wounds – Home Already Bereft by Death Further Stricken Today

A home stricken with grief is 19 Richardson Street, word having been received this morning by Mrs. Adam Pifher that her 22 year old son, Sapper Ernest Pifher, had died of his wounds at a special hospital at Warloy on October 16. Mrs. Pifher was at the time laboring under much sorrow, having just lost a sister and her own daughter was in Collingwood burying her dead sister’s son while a brother of the dead boy was on the ocean on his way to do his duty to his country.

Sapper Ernest Pifher had been clerking in a store at Niagara Falls, but came home early this year and enlisted here with the Canadian Engineers. He trained in Ottawa and was home on Easter Sunday for his late farewell. Regularly since, two or three times a week, his anxious mother had heard from him and she had great hopes of his surviving the serious struggle. No word was received by her or his wounding.

Three brothers, one married and living at Galt, and two sisters survive him. Sapper Pifher is in his 22nd year, was single and had worked for four years in Niagara Falls.

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