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Austin Pardy
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Son of Andrew and Mary Ann Pardy
Table Bay, LabradorEnlisted: 11 November 1916
Age 23 Years, 4 Months
Embarked on Florizel 31 Jan 1917
Embarked for BEF 11 June 1917
Joined unit in field 2 July 1917
Wounded in right leg 9 December 1917
Taken Prisoner of War 9 December 1917
Released 20 December 1918
Posted to Nfld. demobilization 24 Jan 1919
Arrived Nfld. 17 March 1919
Discharged 15 July 1919
Austin Pardy had the distinction of being the only one of the Labrador soldiers in WWI to have been taken Prisoner of War, and also the only one to bring home a war bride.
Beatrice (Whittle) and Austin Pardy shortly after their marriage in 1919
Betty Whittle with the truck she drove for the RAF during the war. c 1918
(Visit the War Brides Website at http://www.nlwarbrides.ca/roster/P/Pardy_Beatrice.html )
The memo pictured above is instructions for the paymaster to issue travel
allowance to these four soldiers returning to their homes in Labrador.
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The two pages which follow are an affidavit that all former Prisoners of War were
required to submit
detailing their experiences and treatment following capture.
