Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Edwin James Desperques
2nd Battalion, Canadian Pioneers
19/09/1917
Born at St Peter Port, Guernsey. Son of Edwin James
and Ellen Desperques. Married Eva Barbara Byard in 1906
and they lived at Les Camps, St Martin's, Guernsey.
He enlisted as no. 19757 in the Army Service Corps in
1902 at Guernsey and served until September 1905 when
he transferred to the reserve. In April 1913 he had
applied to go to Canada. In August 1914 he was mobilised
at St Thomas and made corporal in Octover 1914. The
war Office paid for his passage to Canada, where his
wife was now living, in September 1915 and he enlisted
in the Canadian Pioneers at St Thomas in October 1915.
Died, aged 33 years.
Canadian
attestation papers
