Arthur Chester Gavel 733245 Lance Corporal Royal Canadian Regiment May 3, 1893 Argyle Head, Yarmouth Co., NS November 26, 1915 Yarmouth, NS Argyle Head, Yarmouth Co., NS 22 5 feet, 7 inches Dark Blue Black Single Carpenter Baptist Ryder Gavel (Father) Argyle Head, Yarmouth Co., NS March 15, 1919 Halifax, NS June 30, 1947 Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, California. Mausoleum Arthur Chester Gavel was the son of Solomon Ryder Gavel (1852-1927) and Martha Lavinia (Pitman) Gavel. He was the brother of Ethel Gavel (b.1885), Lemuel Hobbs Gavel (1886-1988), Murray Ross Gavel (1889-1972), Ada (Addie) Adams Gavel (1892-1989), and George Andrew Gavel (1897-1979). Arthur Gavel served with the 112th Battalion between November 26, 1915 and March 7, 1917, and with the Royal Canadian Regiment between March 6, 1917 and March 15, 1919. Arthur went overseas on the SS Olympic departing Halifax and disembarked in the United Kingdom on July 31, 1916. He joined the Royal Canadian Regiment in France on March 6, 1917. On June 10, 1917 he was wounded at Lens by shrapnel to the left arm and suffered chest concussion. He was admitted to No. 7 Canadian General Hospital at Etaples. He returned to his unit in the field on October 20, 1917. He was again wounded on November 3, 1917 suffering a shell concussion to the chest. He again rejoined his unit on March 16, 1918. On January 14, 1919 he was appointed Lance Corporal. Lance Corporal Gavel was discharged on March 15, 1919 at Halifax, NS. In 1919, Arthur moved to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and emigrated from there to the United States on October 17, 1919.