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Freeman Berry
Private
931406
No. 2 Construction Battalion
January 16, 1886
Yarmouth, Yarmouth Co., NS
January 16, 1917
Halifax, NS
Not stated on attestation
28
5 feet, 8 ½ inches
Dark
Black
Brown
Basket maker
Married
Roman Catholic
Sara Berry (Mother), 23 Arnold St, Boston, Mass.
March 15, 1917 (Truro, NS)
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Freeman Berry was the son of Richard A. Berry (1831-1909), and Sarah (Cuff) Berry (born 1851).
Freeman’s father was a farmer in Arcadia, in Yarmouth County.
Freeman was the brother of Lydia Berry (born 1873), Aaron Berry (1877–1897), and Foreman Berry
(born 1881), and the half-brother of Elizabeth Berry (born 1856), Annie Brandon Berry (1860–1951),
and Margaret Berry (1861–1876) who were the children of Richard’s first wife Sarah Anne Brown
(1833–1871). After her death in 1871, Richard married Sarah Cuff in 1872.
Private Freeman committed to serving for the period of war and six months; however, he proceeded to
Truro for initial training; however, for medical reasons he was given a medical discharge on November
16, 1916.
Having enlisted with the No.2 Construction Battalion on October 12, 1916, he proceeded to Truro for
initial training; however, for medical reasons he was given a medical discharge, due to an old injury, on
March 15, 1917.
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