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About Capt. George Luther Sills
SILLS, GEORGE LUTHER
- Rank: Captain
- Date of Death: 27/06/1918
- Age: 30
- Regiment/Service: Canadian Army Medical Corps
- Panel Reference: Panel 2.
- Memorial: HALIFAX MEMORIAL
- Additional Information: Son of S. Wilson Sills and Elizabeth Jane Sills.
Son of S. Wilson Sills, a carpenter, and Elizabeth Jane Sills, of River Street, Tweed, he was enrolled at Queen's University in Kingston before enlisting at the outbreak of war. He was assigned to duties as a medical orderly at a hospital in Egypt. At the end of this assignment, he returned to Queen's to complete his studies and become a doctor, at which time he re-enlisted. Documentation of this reenlistment confirms that Dr. Sills' rank was that of Captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps.
While proceeding from Halifax to Liverpool, the ship he was on was deliberately torpedoed by a German gun boat, despite the fact that the Llandovery Castle was well-marked via Red Cross lights as a hospital ship.
Source: Remembering War at the Heritage Centre
1901 Census: Tweed, Hastings East, Ontario, Canada 1 1 1 Sills Willson M Head M Mar 7 1849 51 1 2 1 Sills Jane F Wife M Mar 14 1849 51 1 3 1 Sills John N. M Father W Jan 1 1823 78 1 4 1 Sills Mable F Daughter S May 19 1879 22 1 5 1 Sills David W. M Son S May 9 1885 16 1 6 1 Sills Elesabith F. F Daughter S Feb 20 1886 15 1 7 1 Sills Luther G. M Son S Mar 14 1888 13 1 8 1 Sills Frankie M. F Daughter S Mar 14 1888 13
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- Military Personnel File Links:
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record
- Canadian Great War Project
- Canadian Virtual War Memorial
- Residence: Apr 6 1891 - Hungerford, Hastings East, Ontario, Canada
- Religion: Methodist
- Reference: 1891 Canada Census - SmartCopy: Feb 27 2017, 2:38:55 UTC
- Residence: Mar 31 1901 - Tweed Village, Hastings East, Ontario, Canada
- Race: German
- Reference: 1901 Canada Census - SmartCopy: Feb 27 2017, 2:39:34 UTC
- Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 27 2017, 2:34:54 UTC
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Capt. George Luther Sills's Timeline
| 1888 |
March 14, 1888
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Tweed, Ontario, Canada
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| 1918 |
June 27, 1918
Age 30
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at sea
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