Private Abram Ford

 

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Abram Ford
228 Bn (Construction Bn)
and 6th Canadian Railway Transport
Canadian Expeditionary Force.

Son of Henry and Christana (Lyall) Ford of
Pauls Island, Labrador
b. 29 September, 1890 at Paul's Island.
d. 28 December 1961in Montreal
Interment at Thorold, Ontario

Enlisted 5 Dec 1916
Age 26
Discharged 11 Jan. 1919
Address on Discharge, Thorold, ON

Wounded 3 Jan. 1918
Gassed 27 Mar. 1918

[In some correspondence his first name is spelled Abraham, but his attestation documents spell it Abram, as does his signature on those documents. Correspondence also suggests his mother's family name was Bright, but on his Attestation Papers he has it as "Lyawl" a misprint of Lyall - no doubt the recruiter's interpretation of his pronounciation.]

Abram was working in Iroquois Falls, Ontario when war was declared. This was a boom town at that time and he probably came there as a result of Dr. Grenfell's efforts to find work for young men from the
Labrador . There were several other men from Labrador who worked there and enlisted from there at the same time. He survived the war but had suffered lung damage from poison gas and it affected his breathing, since his lung capacity was reduced.