Name
Redfern Edward Gee
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/04/1917
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Trooper
551347
Canadian Light Horse
“C” Squadron
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY, THELUS
III. F. 20.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Memorial in St John’s Church, Glenavon, SK, Canada
Pre War
Born on 18 Aug 1881 and baptised on 27 Sep 1881 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire son of George Edward and Emma (Bunting) Gee of Nottingham. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1891-96. He emigrated to Glenavon, Saskatchewan, Canada to be a farmer.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 23 Dec 1914 in Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada and was killed with two of his colleagues on mounted patrol in action at Vimy Ridge in France.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
