Name: Reginald Curtis Alride Rank: Private Service Number: F/42563 Service: West Nova Scotia Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Date of Birth: August 23, 1915 Place of Birth: Weymouth Mills, Digby County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: September 10, 1939 Place of Enlistment: Bridgewater, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Weymouth, Digby County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 24 Height: 5 feet, 10 inches Complexion: Medium Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Brown Occupation: Laborer Marital Status: Single Religion: Next of Kin: Donald Alride (Brother), Melvern Square, Annapolis Co., NS Date of Death: November 2, 1939 Age: 24 Cemetery: Church Grove Cemetery, Melvern Square, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia Commemorated on Page 8 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on January 9, 10 and 11 Reginald Curtis Alride was the son of Alexander Alride (1883-1935) and Ida Ellen Sprague (1881- 1925). Reginald enlisted as Reginald Curtis ‘Allright’. His siblings were Donald John Alride (1911- 1988), Ruth (Alride) Piggott (b. 1912), Mildred Louise (Alride) Sabean (1914-2012), and Evelyn Ida Alride (b. 1920). His half brothers were Howard Lloyd Alride and Carmen Alex Alride from his father’s second wife Sarah Ann Howard (1896-1992), a teacher in Weymouth Falls, whom his father married after Reginald’s mother died in 1925. Reginald’s father, a millwright, died in 1935 from typhoid fever from impure water while working at the Sissiboo dam. Reginald’s stepmother remarried Cecil Allister Cosman (1905-1982) in 1942. Reginald enlisted in September of 1939, from Middleton, Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia, and completed attestation papers in Bridgewater, Lunenburg Co., NS. Private Alride was involved in a motor car accident and admitted to the Soldier’s Memorial Hospital in Middleton on November 1st and died November 2, 1939. He was interred November 5, 1939, at the Church Grove Cemetery in Melvern Square, Annapolis Co., NS.