Source: Circumstance of Death Registers
Family Search: When Private Jesse Daniel was born on 19 December 1889, in Leigh, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Timothy Daniel, was 50 and his mother, Margaret Pearson, was 44. He immigrated to Quebec City, Quebec, Canada in 1911 and lived in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1914. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as veneering, Mclagan’s Furniture in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada. He died on 11 September 1917, in Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 27, and was buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Worked for McLagan’s Furniture in Stratford, Ontario.
Brother, Private Frederick Daniel, reg. no. 53666, enlisted the same day and place. He was killed in action at Courcelette, Somme, France on 3 October 1916.
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