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Military service
Service number:
336901
Age:
20
Rank:
Gunner
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
66th Bty. 2nd Bde.
Birth:
December 27, 1896
Montreal, Québec
Enlistment:
March 28, 1916
Montreal, Québec
Death:
August 15, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. K. 19.
Additional information
Son of Jacob and Ida Goldstein, Westmount, Montreal. He was single and employed as a credit man. He went overseas with a draft of the 66th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery. His first stripes, given up voluntarily when he left for France, he regained on the Somme Front when attached to a Howitzer Battery of the 2nd Division, Canadian Field Artillery. He refused a medal, offered him for distinguished service, saying that he was no braver than others and that all had done their best, and was recommended for a lieutenancy. He was killed at the Battle of Loos, on the very day of his departure for England to take up his commission, after ten months' continuous service at the Front, including action at Courcellette, the Somme, Albert, Arras, Vimy Ridge and Lens.
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From the Montreal Star c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Gunner Edgar Hyman Goldstein
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Gunner Edgar Hyman Goldstein
Digital gallery of
Gunner Edgar Hyman Goldstein
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Commemorated on:
Page 244 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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