FOOTE, Alexander

War
1st World War
Date of Birth
Date Attested
Attested at
Valcartier, Quebec
Original Unit
1st Division / 2nd Brigade / 7th Battalion - British Columbia / Canadian Infantry Corps
Regimental Number
17123
Rank
Private
Date of Death
Age at Death
36 years
Cemetery
Moose Jaw Cemetery - Saskatchewan - Canada
Cenotaph
None
Biographical Summary

DIVISIONAL UNIT:        1st Canadian Infantry Division
                                             2nd Infantry Brigade
                                             7th Battalion  -  1st British Columbia
                                             Canadian Infantry Corps
SERVICE NO:                   17123
RESIDENCE:                    Pasqua – Saskatchewan 
DATE OF BIRTH:            June 15, 1883
                                             Brucefield – Stanley / Tuckersmithy Townships - County of Huron - Ontario
DATE OF DEATH:           June 22, 1919                       36 years
CEMETERY:                     Moose Jaw Cemetery – Moose Jaw – 
                                             Saskatchewan
                                             Block 1     Lot 4     Grave 1
WIFE:                                 Mrs. Minetta Foote – Pasqua - Saskatchewan
Occupation:                        Railroad Conductor              Religion:     Presbyterian
Enlistment:                         Valcartier – September 23, 1914
Enlistment Age:                 31 years     6 months

Private Foote embarked from Quebec City on October 3, 1914 and would arrive in England around the middle of October.
When in France, Private Foote was admitted to No. 20 General Hospital located in Camiers on September 7, 1915, with the symptoms of being slightly deaf from shell shock. He was then transferred by hospital ship to Brighton in England and admitted to Wharncliffe War Hospital located in Sheffield on September 11, 1915. From there it was to the Canadian Convalescent Hospital at Monks Horton on October 12, 1915 and it was there he had a minor vision defect corrected. He then went to Canadian Convalescent Hospital in Epsom and finally to the Central Military Hospital in Shorncliffe and discharged on October 25, 1915.
The medical board suggests that be placed on “base duty permanently” on January 13, 1916.
From February 2, 1916, he was at Canadian Casualty Assembly Centre, to The Records Office in London, to The Canadian Army Service Corps, to the Canadian Assembly Centre, to The Canadian Army Service Corps, to General Transport Company, to Headquarters Postal Service, and to the Postal Service at Witley Camp on January 27, 1918.
He was admitted to Southwark Military East Hospital at Dulwich Grove with pleurisy on January 27, 1918, then to the Canadian Convalescent Hospital in Bromley and then to 3rd Canadian Convalescent Depot in Seaford.
Admitted to No. 14 Canadian General Hospital in Eastbourne on July 18, 1918 for 32 days with chronic pleurisy and admitted to Princess Patricia Canadian Hospital on August 19, 1918 for 18 days.
Private Foote departed from England on November 19, 1918 and posted to Hospital Section Section in Moose Jaw on December 18, 1918.
Medical Review Board suggests treatment in a sanitorium for tubercle of lungs for approximately 9 months. 
He was Struck off Service to the Canadian Military on March 4, 1919 in Moose Jaw as being medically unfit and he dies on June 22, 1919.