Cupar, Saskatchewan

[LMChapman]

All really useful thanks!

[*Sandra*]

Great background Don and Dbree - Noticed from the attestation papers that Duncan was at Camp Hughes 4/10/1916 discharged to unit the following day 5/10/1916  (page 13)

Wikipedia - Camp Hughes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Hughes

http://www.mhsm.ca/Z341/index.php/camp-hughes

Probably much more on Mr Google.

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

29/4/1917 - No 3 Canadian Gen Hosp (Mcgill) where Duncan was described as seriously ill. - sw. frac. skull before being transferred to Edinburgh War Hospital on 17/5/1917

No 3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill) 1915-1918  (page 15 of the attestation papers)


http://www.rootschat.com/links/01qga/

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Bangour War Hospital - Edinburgh  16/5/1917 to 26/5/1917
Gun shot wound to parietal bone

https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/a-soldiers-life-1914-1918/the-evacuation-chain-for-wounded-and-sick-soldiers/military-hospitals-in-the-british-isles-1914-1918/bangour-war-hospital-1914-1918/

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Was that a brother Robert Malloch Taylor born 1882 who died 20 August 1922 Braco - probate 29 Novenber 1922 ?

Sandra

[LMChapman]

Yes Robert is buried with him.

[*Sandra*]

Saw the family listed on the headstone  - so the parents both died before they knew about there sons.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178737009/robert-taylor

Sandra

[dbree]

Hi,

A possible in the Cupar newspaper July 5, 1917, war death of 3 Cupar boys.....Pte. Mac Taylor,
formerly employed by Jas. Murray.......

Page 1, and oh so slow to load
http://sabnewspapers.usask.ca/islandora/object/sab%3A14579

DB

[dbree]

Hi,

From the Cupar newspaper March 16, 1916 "Recruiting Notes" ....the following have enlisted...
D.M. Taylor

Page 1
http://sabnewspapers.usask.ca/islandora/object/sab%3A6994

DB