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Note: N1 A year old when his mother died, six years old when his father died. Probably raised by older siblings or other extended family - was living with his uncle David Calder, (his father’s brother) and brother Hugh in the 1891 Census. Entered the British Army, the Seaforth Highlanders Corps, on Oct. 8 1900 ( at age 17). Served in Egypt for two years and in India for almost 6 years. Then was in the Reserves. Came to USA to live with sister, Sophia, in Pottsville and married Jean Sloan. Traveled to Canada to enlist in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in 1916 in WWI. On March 2 1917, he sustained a head wound in France and lost his left eye in the 15th Battalion, Canadian Army, and returned to Pottsville after being taken care of in Spadina Military Hospital in Toronto, Canada, in 1917. Returned there often over the years for checkups. As a result of the head injury, he suffered seizures “caused by abscesses forming close to the brain.” By trade, he was a carpenter and electrician, working for the East Penn Traction company before the war. They lived on a pension from the Canadian government after his WWI wounds. Jean, his daughter, was very fond of him. She remembers him having many seizures at home, and she remembers the final one that took his life, when she was 12. When he was feeling well, the relationship was good. When he wasn’t feeling well, he wasn’t as warm. He would be hospitalized and suffer convulsions on a regular basis. He drank heavily during his last few years. His last seizure caused his death in January 1932. Because of the verbal abuse he had inflicted upon his family after his wartime experiences (and probably because of his head wound, affecting his personality), his son, Bruce, burned all of his Scottish memorabelia after his death.
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