Edward Leslie Raynard

Edward Leslie Raynard 1258109 Gunner 10th Halifax Siege Battery Reserve Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery September 11, 1900 Tusket Lakes, Yarmouth Co., NS February 8, 1917 Halifax, NS 16 5 feet, 10½ inches Dark Blue Black Single Machinist Baptist Carl Clifton Raynard (Father) Tusket Lakes, Yarmouth Co., NS June 27, 1918 (Aldershot NS) 17 May 29, 1969 Edward Leslie Raynard was the son of Carl Clifton Raynard (1869-1958) and Hannah (Allen) Raynard 1884-1956) of Tusket Lakes, Yarmouth Co., NS. His siblings were Ralph Everett Raynard (1905-1984), Alva Lavinia Raynard (1909-1995), Hannah Raynard (b. 1910), Allan Walton Raynard (1913-1999), Carl Corning Raynard (1916-2004), Earle Douglas Raynard Sr (1920-1990), Ruth Sheldon North Raynard (1923-2005), and Phyllis Hope Raynard (1925-2018). Both of Edward’s brothers, Allan, and Earle, served Canada during the Second World War. Allan is interred at the Tusket Lakes Cemetery, and Earle is interred at the Green Lawn Cemetery in Tusket. Although Edward was born in 1900, he provided his year of birth as 1899 on his attestation which made his age appear as 18. He enlisted at Halifax with the 10th Halifax Siege Battery on February 8, 1917, and embarked Halifax on the SS Olympic for England on May 5, 1917, disembarking there on June 10, 1917. At Shorncliffe Army Camp, near Cheriton in Kent, England, he was taken on strength with the Reserve Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery on June 22, 1917. In October 1917, it was determined that he was under age and was struck off strength for return to Canada. He arrived in St. John, New Brunswick on March 3, 1918, and was discharged at Aldershot, NS on June 27, 1918, at which point he was still only 17 years old. Edward died at the Camp Hill Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia on May 29, 1969. His body was donated to the Dalhousie Medical School.

photo: courtesy of Carl Raynard Library and Archives Canada