Sapper
1st Battalion
Canadian Railway Troops
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Service number 3208156
World War I
Commonwealth War Dead
Age 30 (29 on marker)
Son of Joseph and Sarah Friedman, of 491 Hinsdale St., Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
Attestation (draft) form dated April 29, 1918
Calgary, Alberta shows
Last residence: Medicine Hat
Birth place: Disna, Russia (now Belarus)
Status: Single
Religion: Hebrew (Jewish)
Trade: School teacher
Previous service: Officers Training Course, Calgary 1914
Height: 5 ft 4-1/2 in
Complexion: Fair
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Fair
Sapper Friedman's is the only Canadian grave among 832 burials in the cemetery.
In 1921, the Canadian government mailed Sapper Friedman's service decorations, a memorial plaque and scroll along with his unspent pay of $42.44 to his parents in Brooklyn.
Article in Nov 2006 journal of the Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta
http://jhssa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/JHSSA-Nov-2006-v4.pdf
1st Battalion
Canadian Railway Troops
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Service number 3208156
World War I
Commonwealth War Dead
Age 30 (29 on marker)
Son of Joseph and Sarah Friedman, of 491 Hinsdale St., Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
Attestation (draft) form dated April 29, 1918
Calgary, Alberta shows
Last residence: Medicine Hat
Birth place: Disna, Russia (now Belarus)
Status: Single
Religion: Hebrew (Jewish)
Trade: School teacher
Previous service: Officers Training Course, Calgary 1914
Height: 5 ft 4-1/2 in
Complexion: Fair
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Fair
Sapper Friedman's is the only Canadian grave among 832 burials in the cemetery.
In 1921, the Canadian government mailed Sapper Friedman's service decorations, a memorial plaque and scroll along with his unspent pay of $42.44 to his parents in Brooklyn.
Article in Nov 2006 journal of the Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta
http://jhssa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/JHSSA-Nov-2006-v4.pdf
Sapper
1st Battalion
Canadian Railway Troops
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Service number 3208156
World War I
Commonwealth War Dead
Age 30 (29 on marker)
Son of Joseph and Sarah Friedman, of 491 Hinsdale St., Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
Attestation (draft) form dated April 29, 1918
Calgary, Alberta shows
Last residence: Medicine Hat
Birth place: Disna, Russia (now Belarus)
Status: Single
Religion: Hebrew (Jewish)
Trade: School teacher
Previous service: Officers Training Course, Calgary 1914
Height: 5 ft 4-1/2 in
Complexion: Fair
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Fair
Sapper Friedman's is the only Canadian grave among 832 burials in the cemetery.
In 1921, the Canadian government mailed Sapper Friedman's service decorations, a memorial plaque and scroll along with his unspent pay of $42.44 to his parents in Brooklyn.
Article in Nov 2006 journal of the Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta
http://jhssa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/JHSSA-Nov-2006-v4.pdf
1st Battalion
Canadian Railway Troops
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Service number 3208156
World War I
Commonwealth War Dead
Age 30 (29 on marker)
Son of Joseph and Sarah Friedman, of 491 Hinsdale St., Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
Attestation (draft) form dated April 29, 1918
Calgary, Alberta shows
Last residence: Medicine Hat
Birth place: Disna, Russia (now Belarus)
Status: Single
Religion: Hebrew (Jewish)
Trade: School teacher
Previous service: Officers Training Course, Calgary 1914
Height: 5 ft 4-1/2 in
Complexion: Fair
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Fair
Sapper Friedman's is the only Canadian grave among 832 burials in the cemetery.
In 1921, the Canadian government mailed Sapper Friedman's service decorations, a memorial plaque and scroll along with his unspent pay of $42.44 to his parents in Brooklyn.
Article in Nov 2006 journal of the Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta
http://jhssa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/JHSSA-Nov-2006-v4.pdf
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