Hi Frank, Your Ernest is listed on the Commonwealth War Graves site: http://yard.ccta.gov.uk/cwgc/register.nsf . Hope this is helpful. Victoria Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Heather" <heather.frank@btinternet.com> To: <CAN-MANITOBA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 3:45 PM Subject: [CAN-Manitoba] Looking for Ernest HEATHER | I would much appreciate help in trying to trace the lost years (1905 to | 1915) of Ernest HEATHER. He was born in 1891 in High Wycombe, | Buckinghamshire, England and emigrated ca 1905 to Canada with his uncle | Thomas Heather. He settled somewhere in the Brandon-Medora-Lauder area of | Manitoba. | | Papers from the Canadian National Archive show that when he enlisted in the | Canadian army in 1915 he was medically examined at Medora and his | attestation certified at Brandon. He served with the 19th Bn Canadian | Infantry (1st Central Ontario Regiment) and was killed near Arras in 1918. A | handkerchief handed down in the family (he would have been my uncle) is | embroidered "A souvenir of Medora" | | I have traced his uncle Thomas Heather who farmed near Lauder until his | death in 1926. But there is no trace of Ernest there and the ten years | 1905-1915 are a blank; his enlistment papers only give the clue that he was | farming. Any help from Manitoba listers as to his whereabouts, mention on | any war memorial inscription etc would be very welcome. | Frank Heather, Surrey, England | | | ==== CAN-MANITOBA Mailing List ==== | CAN-MANITOBA-L Mailing List | http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmb/canmanitoba.htm | | ============================== | Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! | http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 | |