Cemetery: Etaples Military Cemetery
Country: France
Area: Pas De Calais
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Official Number: 304078
Unit: 3rd Div Ammunition Col Canadian Field Artillery
Country of Service: Canadian
Details: 19th February 1917 XXIÂ GÂ 2 Walter and Thomas Addison enlisted in the 33rd Battery, Canadian Field Artillery in November 1915 but were later transferred to 3rd Division ammunition column. Although having no previous military experience and despite his young age, Walter was promoted to Corporal but within 2 years he would be dead from pneumonia at the age of 20. Prior to enlisting, he had been a teller at the Royal Bank branch at Gerrard and Main in east-end Toronto. Source: The Toronto Star
Photograph by Chris Cosgrove