Name: Alonzo Willis Durkee Rank: Private Service Number: 733553 Service: 112th Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force Date of Birth: August 8, 1897 Place of Birth: Hebron, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: December 21, 1917 Place of Enlistment: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Chegoggin, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 20 Height: 5 feet, 10 inches Complexion Fair Eye Colour: Gray Hair Colour: Brown Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Single Religion: Methodist Next of Kin: Asa Durkee (Father), Brockton, Mass. Date of Discharge: March 15, 1919 Age: 21 Date of Death: February 2, 1975 Age: 77 Cemetery: Puritan Lawn Memorial Park, Peabody, Essex County, Massachusetts Alonzo Willis Durkee was the son of Asa Porter Durkee (1865-1944) and Annie Amelia MacCormack (1876-1909), the brother of Lester Pearl Durkee (1899-1980), the husband of Clara Gertrude (DeWinter) Durkee (1895-1978) born in South Alton in Kings Co., NS, and the father of Donald Allen Durkee (1926- 1944) and Ruth Allison (Durkee) Wood Prosser (1922-2006). Alonzo’s birthplace is recorded as Brockton in Plymouth Co., Massachusetts on many records but on the 1901 Census of Canada, just 4 years after his birth, he is living in Hebron, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia with his parents and his brother Lester. After the death of Alonzo’s mother in 1909, his father Asa remarried in 1915, becoming the husband of Eliza Jane (Mosher) DeWinter (1861-1929), who was Alonzo’s mother-in-law. Eliza had separated from her husband, William Henry DeWinter (1851-1925), around 1910, when he moved west to Alberta with their two sons, Harold Everett DeWinter (1892-1955) and James Edward DeWinter (1890-1959), who were Alonzo’s brothers-in-law and, following the marriage, became his stepbrothers. Alonzo’s brother Lester Pearl Durkee enlisted with the 40th Battalion during the First World War. Alonzo’s brother-in-law and step-brother, Harold Everett DeWinter, served with Company C of the 16th Field Artillery, 4th Division, US Army during World War I. Alonzo himself initially enlisted with the 112th Battalion and served with the Royal Canadian Regiment in France. He was wounded by gas attack October 29, 1917. He was discharged in March of 1919 after returning to Canada, and after his First World War service, Alonzo returned to Massachusetts. He married Clare Getrude DeWinter in 1920. He completed a WWII Draft Registration card on February 15, 1942, but did not serve. He and his wife were living in Lynn, Essex Co., Mass. and he was working Electric Line Foreman for the Lynn Gas & Electric Company of Exchange Street in Lynn. He worked at the 788 Broad Street location. He died February 2, 1975, at the age of 77 and is interred at the Puritan Lawn Memorial Park in Peabody, Essex Co., Massachusetts.