Gordon Berry 931216 Private No. 2 Construction Battalion September 8, 1898 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia August 28, 1916 Yarmouth, NS Yarmouth, NS 17 5 feet, 4½ inches Black Black Black Labourer Single African Methodist Episcopal Sylvanus Berry (Father) Yarmouth, NS February 15 1919 (Halifax, NS) Unknown Unknown Unknown Gordon Berry was the second-born son of a large family of Sylvanus Berry (b. 1863), and Lilian ‘Lillie’ M. (Sisco) Berry (1872-1959). His mother was born in Salmon River, Yarmouth Co., NS. Gordon was the brother of Annis Belle Berry (b. 1891), Irvin William Berry (1894–1952), Lois Berry (b. 1896), May Lillian Berry (b. 1898), John Melvin Berry (b. 1902), Norma Berry (1906–1919), William Berry (b. 1908), Thomas Durland Berry (1910–1910), Dorothy Berry (b. 1912), and Lillian Berry (1919–1919). Having enlisted on August 28, 1916, Gordon embarked for overseas, on the SS Southland at Halifax on March 25, 1917, arriving in Liverpool, England on April 7 1917. He embarked England for service in France arriving there on May 17, 1917. While in France, he was briefly admitted to No. 10 General Hospital at Rouen with bronchitis for two days from April 24 to the 26, 1918. He returned to England on December 14, 1918, and assigned to Kimmel Park awaiting embarkation to Canada and discharge. Returning to Canada on the SS Aquitania, on January 18, 1919 he disembarked at Halifax on January 24, 1919. Having served in Canada, England, and France, he was discharged on February 15, 1919.