Gordon Lister Cerswell

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

135258

Unit at enlistment:

74th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

May 16th, 1916

Cemetery:

Woods Cemetery - Belgium - II.C.7.

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

York

Birth city:

Toronto, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

Toronto, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Bradford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Teamster

Religious denominations:

Presbyterian

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action.
Location of Unit at Time of Casualty: Zillebeke.

BX May 20, 1916

Reported Killed

In this morning’s casualty list appears the name of Private Gordon Lister Cerswell of Brantford killed in action. No record is found in the Expositor’s lists of such a man having enlisted here and no word had been received in the city up to this morning of his death. The name Cerswell does not appear in the Brantford City directory, nor does the name G. Carswell.