Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
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Family Search: When Private Peter Joseph Girodat was born on 3 January 1895, in Hanover, Grey, Ontario, Canada, his father, Joseph Lorentz Girodat, was 56 and his mother, Josephine Letzgus, was 34. He had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Caroline C. Adelmann. He immigrated to New York, United States in 1921 and lived in Grey, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States for about 12 years. He registered for military service in 1918. In 1918, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as machinist in Hanover, Grey, Ontario, Canada. He died on 13 December 1954, at the age of 59.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 