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Edward Leslie Raynard
Edward Leslie Raynard
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Gunner
10th Halifax Siege Battery
September 11, 1899 (on attestation)
September 11, 1900 (actual)
Tusket Lakes, Yarmouth Co., NS
February 8, 1917
Halifax, NS
18 (actual age 17)
5 feet, 10½ inches
Dark
Blue
Black
Single
Machinist
Baptist
Carl Clifton Raynard (Father) Tusket Lakes,
Yarmouth Co., NS
June 27, 1918 (Aldershot NS)
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.
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 Camp
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 of strength for return to
Canada. He arrived in St. John, NB on March 3, 1918 and was discharged at Aldershot, NS on June 27,
1918.
Edward also served during World War II.
photo: courtesy of Carl Raynard
Library and Archives Canada
