Norman Osborne Brearley

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
602786
Unit at enlistment: 
34th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
No
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: 
18

Letters and documents

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.