Raymond George Girdlestone

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772677

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Wounded:

Yes

Date of death:

December 29th, 1920

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Brantford Congregational Church PSA Brotherhood

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Suffolk

Birth city:

Lowestoft

Address at enlistment:

144 East Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

144 East Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Plasterer

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

Cause of Death: Tuberculosis of Lungs
Location: Brantford, Ontario

BX December 29, 1920

GIRDLESTONE – In Brantford, Wednesday, Dec. 29 1920, Raymond George Girdlestone, in his 41st year. Funeral will take place from his late residence, 144 East Ave., on Friday, Dec. 31, at 2.30, interment in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances please, accept this intimation.

BX January 3, 1921

Raymond George Girdlestone Laid to Rest

The remains of a soldier of the late war, Raymond George Girdlestone, were laid to rest on Friday afternoon in Mount Hope cemetery. Rev. Charles Edward Jeakins conducted the services at the family residence, 144 East Avenue, and eight comrades from the Great War Veterans acted as pallbearers; Messrs. R. Hall, W. Woodcock, A.C. Burley, J. Hibbert, R. Girdlestone, H. Sullivan, P. King and J. Hutcheon. Many attended to show their last respects to their late comrade.

BX November 20, 1917

Word has been received in the city that Private Raymond George Girdlestone has been admitted to the Sixth Field Ambulance hospital depot on Nov. 6. He was suffering from a shrapnel wound in the hip.

BX December 11, 1918

Veterans Have Returned Home – Number of Them were Victims of German Poison Gas

A party of Brantford soldiers returned home yesterday afternoon and were met at the depot by Secretary MacDonald of the Soldiers’ Aid Commission. All the members of the party were walking cases but had suffered more or less from the effects of gas poisoning. Raymond Girdlestone was probably in the worst condition of any of the party, but all were mighty glad to get back to good old Brantford once more. The party included the following: Roy J. Kelso, 9 West Mill Street; Stanley Bennett, Terrace Hill; R.M. Ross, Grandview; Raymond Girdlestone, 144 East Avenue; Robert Charlick, 148 Wellington Street; H.E. Hyde and F.J. Hooper, L. Shuert, Baldwin Avenue remained at Whitby hospital.