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Niles family in Canada

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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 27 Oct 2016 09:43

No Peter Niles born c1899 but there's this one

Births Mar 1899
Davis Peter Robert E. Lewisham 1d. 1235

Name: Peter Robert E Davis
Birth Date: 3 Jan 1899
Date of Registration: Jun 1983
Age at Death: 84
Registration district: Greenwich
Inferred County: Greater London
Volume: 12
Page: 0831

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 27 Oct 2016 10:11

Name: Peter Niles
Birth Date: abt 1875
Date of Registration: Dec 1920
Age at Death: 45
Registration district: Greenwich
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1d
Page: 990

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Annie

Annie Report 27 Oct 2016 21:30

thank you x ;-)

mgnv

mgnv Report 29 Oct 2016 02:25

Wm 1911 http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1911/pdf/e002036970.pdf

I've sent Annie the 1921 image by pm [1921_097-e003049256.jpg]

Via a search at: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/search.aspx

Name: NILES, WILLIAM HENRY
Regimental Number: 757392
Date of Birth: 12/02/1900
Reference:RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 7335 - 40
Item Number:562261
Record Group:Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=img&app=CEF&id=555290a
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=img&app=CEF&id=555290b

LAC is digitizing the full service records at abt 300 boxes per month
Posted on October 14, 2016
Latest box digitized: Box 5848 and Mahony.

So it looks like you should retry the search in abt 5 m time.
Wm attested in Oct 1915, so he probably saw service first on the Somme.
For him this would be the Sept battles for Pozieres-Courcelette is my guess, but you'ld need his service record and his unit's war diaries to be sure.
War diaries via: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/020152_e.html


marr https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27DL-K73 [with image link - check also preceeding image]

Annie

Annie Report 30 Oct 2016 21:49

thank you for this x :-D

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