Frederick Stanley Waddle

Rank:

Corporal

Regimental number:

183798

Unit at enlistment:

89th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Norfolk

Birth city:

Port Dover, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

33 Terrace Hill Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

33 Terrace Hill Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Carpenter

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Wounded

BX January 16, 1918

The name of Corporal Frederick Stanley Waddle is included among the wounded in action in the official casualty list issued at Ottawa today.

BX February 11, 1918

Mr. and Mrs. John Waddle, 33 Terrace Hill Street, have received particulars of the wounding of their son, Corporal Frederick Stanley Waddle, who was reported as having been wounded on Jan. 6. Corporal Waddle lost his right foot and also received injuries to the wrist. A shell burst a few feet in front of him, killing two and wounding two others of his pals. He was in the clearing station for three days, and was then dispatched to the U.S. hospital at Boulogne. F. Waddle is now in hospital in Fishpond, Bristol, in the Beauport War Hospital, in charge of Captain Hutton, a former well known Brantfordite, who has seen service in the medical corps in Serbia and France. Capt. Hutton went overseas with the R.C.R. He reports getting excellent food and treatment. In his letter to his parents he tells of terrible experiences in the front line, on one occasion having to crawl from shell hole to shell hole hundreds of yards, to get a parcel which was coming to him from home. Enlisting in the 89th at Calgary, Corp. Waddle was later transferred to an Edmonton Battalion.