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Angus Francis Trefry
Angus Francis Trefry
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Private
1st Depot Battalion NS
April 11, 1895
Springhaven, Yarmouth Co., NS
February 25, 1918
Halifax NS
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Springhaven, Yarmouth Co., NS
5 feet, 6½ inches
Dark
Hazel
Brown
Farmer
Single
Baptist
Erven Trefry (Father), Springhaven, Yarmouth Co., NS
July 13, 1919 (Halifax on demobilization)
1990
Angus Francis Trefry was the son of Erven Caleb Trefry [1874-1932] and Elizabeth (White) Trefry
[1877-1962] of Springhaven, Yarmouth Co., NS. A brother, Roy Clerman Trefry, also served during WWI.
Private Trefry enlisted at Halifax on February 25, 1918. During his training in Canada he contracted
measles and was hospitalized for forty-seven days. On August 2, 1918 he embarked at Halifax and
disembarked at Liverpool, England, on August 16, 1918. He served at Camp Aldershot from August 18, 1918
assigned to the 17th Reserve Battalion. He returned to Canada on the HMT Mauritania on June 28, 1919
and was discharged at Halifax on July 13, 1919.
Before going overseas, he married Reta
Hurlburt [1895-1979] on May 15, 1918.
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