Pte. Sydney Robert MEASOR
1892 - 1955 (62 years)
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Name Sydney Robert MEASOR Prefix Pte. Birth 8 Dec 1892 Chapleau, Algoma, Ontario, Canada 
Gender Male Death 29 Apr 1955 Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada [1, 2] Obituary 30 Apr 1955 The Calgary Herald p. 34 WWI service #1036140 Occupation lumberman Burial Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Address:
Burnsland Cemetery
Calgary, AlbertaPerson ID I40592469 Whitewater Region Early Families Last Modified 11 Jul 2021
Father William May MEASOR, b. Jan 1859, Brighton, Sussex, England d. 5 Apr 1938, Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Age ~ 79 years) Mother Ellen Jane BULMER, b. 1861, Ross Twp., Renfrew, Ontario, Canada d. 21 Oct 1927, Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Age 66 years) Marriage 1 May 1889 Ross Twp., Renfrew, Ontario, Canada [3, 4, 5, 6] Family ID F13412042 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Family ID F13436354 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 11 Jul 2021
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Notes WWI service:
- Enlisted July 1, 1916 at Pembroke, Ontario in the 238th Battalion and served in England.
Obituary:
- Sydney Robert Measor, 62, of 424 52nd Ave. N.W., died Friday in the Colonel Belcher hospital.
He was born at Chapleau, Ont., and came to Westlock 33 years ago. For 14 years he was employed by the Bow River Forestry Reserve and lived for the past three years at Banff. Mr. Measor served in both the First and Second Great Wars.
He is survived by his wife, Mary of Edmonton; three sons, Gordon, Black Diamond, Harold of Calgary and Robert of McGrath; three daughters, Mrs. Margaret Ford of Victoria, Mrs. Francis Thomson of Black Diamond and Mrs. Violet McKay of Edmonton; 10 grandchildren; four brothers, William of Banff, Lester of Edmonton, Stanley of Windsor, Richard of Toronto, and a sister, Mrs. Violet Morgan of Vancouver.
Excerpt from The Calgary Herald, April 30, 1955, page 34
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Sources - [S471822] Ancestry.comProvincial Archives of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Death Indexes, BMD-CAN-Alberta, Canada, Deaths Index, 1870-1966, ((2017)), Alberta Death Reg. #003-510. (Reliability: 3).
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010874-89 (Renfrew Co.), William MEASOR, 30, Sussex - England, Chapleau, laborer, s/o William MEASOR & Ann McNAB, to Nellie BULMER, 28, Ross, same, d/o Robert BULMER & Helen MURDOCK, witn James WOOD S of Cobden, Martha BULMER of Ross, 1 May 1889 at Cobden - [S470797] OGS Sault Ste Marie Branch, Newspaper - Index to Births, Marriages, & Deaths in the Pembroke Observer and Upper Ottawa Advertiser 1867-1898, (July 1991).
- [S471026] Lewis, Olga, Renfrew County Marriages, 1876-1890, (Sep 1998) (Reliability: 3).
010874-89 (Renfrew Co.), William MEASOR, 30, Sussex - England, Chapleau, laborer, s/o William MEASOR & Ann McNAB, to Nellie BULMER, 28, Ross, same, d/o Robert BULMER & Helen MURDOCK, witn James WOOD S of Cobden, Martha BULMER of Ross, 1 May 1889 at Cobden
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