Norman Osborne Brearley

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

602786

Unit at enlistment:

34th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

April 20th, 1917

Cemetery:

Vimy Memorial - Pas de Calais, France

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Middlesex

Birth city:

London, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

454 Drew Street, Woodstock, Ontario

Next of kin address:

454 Drew Street, Woodstock, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Student

Religious denominations:

Wesleyan

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Previously reported Missing, now reported Killed in Action. On the night of April 20th 1917, when his company had been relieved from Farbus Wood and were moving back to Nine Elms, this soldier fell out at the top of Farbus Hill to rest. He was No. 1 of his Lewis gun section and carried the gun. He was afterwards found dead, having been hit by a shell which landed in the shell hole in which he was resting.

BX May 15, 1917

Word was received in the city this morning that Private Norman Osborne Brearley of Woodstock has been killed in action. He was born on Terrace Hill and is well known here. The family moved to Woodstock some years ago.