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Roy Clerman Trefry
Roy Clerman Trefry
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Private
1st Depot Battalion NS
May 7, 1897
Springhaven, Yarmouth Co., NS
May 28, 1918
Aldershot, NS
21
Springhaven, Yarmouth Co., NS
5 feet, 8 inches
Medium
Brown
Black
Farmer
Single
Baptist
Erven Trefry (Father), Springhaven, Yarmouth Co., NS
January 17, 1919 (Halifax on demobilization)
1983
Roy Clerman Trefry was the son of Erven Caleb Trefry [1874-1932] and Elizabeth (White) Trefry
[1877-1962] of Springhaven, Yarmouth Co., NS. A brother, Angus Francis Trefry, also served during WWI.
Private Trefry enlisted at Aldershot on May 28 1918. While at Aldershot he contracted influenza and
was hospitalized between August 8 and August 13, 1918. On August 16, 1918 he was granted the first of
four harvest furloughs, the last furlough being granted on December 2, 1918. He was discharged on
demobilization on January 17, 1919.
On May 6, 1925 he married Viola Catherine Riggs [1899-1989]. Roy died in 1983 and they are buried
in the Arcadia Cemetery, Yarmouth Co., NS.
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