Edgar Smith Spurr

BORN: 11 January 1886 in Torbrook, Nova Scotia

DIED: 14 June 1918 near Arras, France

MARRIED: 20 September 1911 in Middleton, Nova Scotia

SPOUSE: Ethel Heath Wheelock born 11 April 1886 in Torbrook, Nova Scotia, died 9 October 1988 in Ottawa, Ontario

CHILDREN:

John Wheelock born 23 August 1912 in Middleton, Nova Scotia, died 9 October 1981 in Kingston, Ontario

NOTES:

Edgar worked as a junior merchant and at age 29 joined 112th Battalion, became a Lieutenant, and went overseas. He became an intelligence officer with the 25th Battalion and at Hill 70 he won the Military Cross for heroic actions. He held the rank of Captain at the time he was killed. Ethel took in roomers as a vocation, raised her two sons, put both through college and lived to 102.