Name: Ebenezer Tucker Rank: Private Service Number: 2329820 Service: 72nd Company, Canadian Forestry Corps Date of Birth: July 8, 1891 Place of Birth: Winterton, Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland Date of Enlistment: April 18, 1917 Place of Enlistment: Yarmouth, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Winterton, Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland Age at Enlistment: 25 Height: 5 feet, 10 inches Complexion: Dark Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Dark Occupation: Janitor Marital Status: Single Religion: Church of England Next of Kin: John Tucker (Father), Winterton, Newfoundland Date of Death: February 8, 1919 Age: 27 Cemetery: Seaford Cemetery, Seaford, Sussex, England Grave: 2966 Commemorated on Page 544 of the First World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on November 18 Ebenezer Tucker was born in Winterton, also known as Sille or Scilly Cove. Winterton is on Winterton Cove off Trinity Bay on the western side of the Avalon Peninsula on Newfoundland's east coast. Ebenezer was the son of John William Tucker (1859-1930) and Anna Maria (Hiscock) Tucker (1858- 1940). Ebenezer’s siblings were Robert Augustus Tucker (1882-1950), Ella Maud Tucker (1884-1959), Leah Harriet Tucker 1886-1959), Wilfred James Tucker (1889-1929), Sarah Suzanna Tucker (1893-1980), Frances Lillian Tucker (1895-1966), Joshua Tucker (1897-1917), and Franklin Tucker (1899-1978). Ebenezer’s brother Joshua (Private, Service No. 2684) served in WWI with the Newfoundland Regiment, and was killed in action by shell fire during the Battle of Arras on April 14, 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial in France. Ebenezer was employed as a janitor prior to enlistment in WWI. He enlisted in Yarmouth, NS with the No. 2 Forestry Company, Nova Scotia, and later served with the 72nd Company of the Canadian Forestry Corps. He served in Canada, England, and France. He sailed from Halifax June 25, 1917, aboard the SS Justicia, and disembarked in Liverpool, England. Private Ebenezer Tucker died of influenza and pneumonia England at the 14th Canadian General Hospital in Eastbourne in Sussex. He was interred at the Seaford Cemetery in Seaford, Lewes District, East Sussex, England on February 10, 1919. Ebenezer’s story is like that of Elezer Steele, who is commemorated on the Yarmouth NS Cenotaph. They were both born in Newfoundland, but enlisted in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and were casualties of the First World War. Ebenezer, however, is not listed on the Cenotaph. Both Ebenezer and his brother Joshua are also commemorated on the war memorial in Winterton, Newfoundland, and on a plaque at the Society of United Fisherman Hall in Winterton.

Sources: Library and Archives Canada Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave