Name: Edgar Gavel Service Number: 3180004 Regiment: 1st Depot Battalion Nova Scotia/ RCR Rank: Private Date of Birth: January 22, 1895 Place of Birth: Gavelton, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: November 17, 1917 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Gavelton, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 22 Height: 5 feet, 7 inches Trade: Farmer Religion: United Baptist Next of Kin: Budd Gavel (Father), Gavelton, Yarmouth Co, NS Discharged: March 15, 1919 (Halifax) Date of Death: October 4, 1962 at Sudbury, Ontario Edgar Gavel was the son of Budd Moody Joseph Gavel (1871-1959) and Annie (Andrews) Gavel (1871- 1901), and the brother of Josephine A Gavel (1892-1965), Adeline Mary Gavel (1897-1986), Arnold Gavel (1898-1987), and Dora Dorothea Gavel (1901-1961). His father remarried Mary Jane Doucette in Eel Brook in 1909 after Edgar’s mother died in 1901, and he had five half-siblings - Mary Bertha Gavel (1909-2002), Annie Alice Gavel (1910-1969), Guytha Mary Gavel (1912-2016), Frances Marie Gavel (1914-1991), and Arthur Charles Gavel (1915-1972). Edgar boarded a transport, the SS Metagama, on April 7, 1918, at Halifax, disembarking in Liverpool, England on April 19, 1918. After a time assigned to the 17th Reserve Battalion in the UK, and a stint in hospital, Edgar proceeded overseas November 7, 1918 and was taken on strength with the Royal Canadian Regiment on November 8, 1918. On February 6, 1919 he proceeded to England from France, subsequently returned to Canada, and was discharged March 15, 1919 at Halifax. Sources: Library and Archives Canada