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Rank Private
Service # 53629
Resident Chatham

a brother of William 53628. A single labourer.  Member of Sussex Territorials. Attestation: 3?11/1914 at Chatham, ON. to 24th Kent Regt. Reported wounded.CDP 14/11/17. It is reported in a letter from Capt. Stewart McKeough to his father dated 3/05/16, while discussing the death of William Whittington that his brother, “Lance Corporal Harry Whittington who is in the Coy., although I believe they enlisted in Sarnia, had relatives in Chatham and while in London always went to Chatham when on pass.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Sources Chatham Daily Planet (04-11-1914), RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 10333 - 9, “McKeough Letters” at page 358.
Birthplace 09/10/1884 at Sussex, England
Next of Kin Mary Whittington of West Cattagas, Balney, Sussex, England

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