Name: George Leslie Pitman Rank: Private Service Number: 2329895 Service: Canadian Forestry Corps Date of Birth: January 17, 1869 (1872 on attestation paper) Place of Birth: Carleton, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: June 1, 1917 Place of Enlistment: Aldershot, NS Address at Enlistment: Carleton, Yarmouth Co., NS Age at Enlistment: 47 Height: 6 feet, 2 inches Complexion: Dark Eye Colour: Grey Hair Colour: Brown Occupation: Lumberman/Farmer Marital Status: Married Religion: Baptist Next of Kin: Etta Pitman (Wife) Carleton, NS Date of Discharge: March 22, 1919 (Halifax) Demobilization Age: 50 Date of Death: March 28, 1933 Age: 64 Cemetery: Carleton Cemetery, Carleton, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia George Leslie Pitman was the son of Rufus Perry Pitman (1844-1917) and Lois Jane (Murphy) Pitman (1845-1904), the brother of Isaiah Lloyd Pitman (1871- 1946) and Susan A. Pitman (1872-1872), the husband of Henrietta ‘Etta’ Grace (Moses) Pitman (1870–1924), and the father of Elmer Ellsworth Pitman (1898- 1987), Caroline A. (Pitman) Gould (1899-1987), and Hattie Cecila (Pitman) Allen (1901-1953). George’s son Elmer Ellsworth Pitman served in the First World War (Service No. 2329891) with the Forestry Corps. George enlisted on June 1, 1917, in Aldershot, NS. He embarked Halifax, NS in late June on the SS Justicia, and disembarked in Liverpool, England on July 4, 1917, where he was taken on strength at the Base Depot, Canadian Forestry Corps at Sunningdale, Berkshire, England. The Depot at Sunningdale was the place for the deployment of Canadian forestry personnel during WWI. On October 30, 1918, George was taken on strength for service with the 19th Company CFC. He arrived in France on November 1, 1918, and served there until January 1919. He returned to Sunningdale in England. George Pitman was not hospitalized during his service; however, a medical completed at Sunningdale in 1919 identified a deformity of the left foot in October 1917, that corrected itself. The medical also identified arteriosclerosis (vascular disease) and slight chronic bronchitis. Private George Pitman returned to Canada and was discharged on March 22, 1919, on demobilization. He died of endocarditis and bronchitis on March 28, 1933, in Carleton, Yarmouth Co., NS his death attributed to his wartime service. He is buried in the Carleton Cemetery, Carleton, NS.

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