FETTERLY, William Marcus Grant

War
1st World War
Date of Birth
Date Attested
Attested at
Wingham, Ontario
Original Unit
161st Huron Battalion
Regimental Number
654263
Rank
Sergeant
Date of Death
Age at Death
28 years 6 months
Cemetery
Bramshott St Mary Churchyard Cemetery - Hampshire - England
Cenotaph
Wingham Cenotaph
Biographical Summary

DIVISIONAL UNIT:        2nd Canadian Infantry Division
                                             4th Infantry Brigade
                                             18th Battalion - Western Ontario
                                             Canadian Infantry Corps
SERVICE NO:                   654263
RESIDENCE:                    Wingham – Ontario 
DATE OF BIRTH:            August 17, 1890
                                             Cornwall - Ontario
DATE OF DEATH:           February 19, 1919                28 years     6 months
CEMETERY:                     Bramshott (St. Mary) Churchyard Cemetery – Bramshott –
                                             Hampshire – England
                                             II     D     18
PARENT:                           Mr. A. C. Fetterly – Cornwall – Ontario
FIANCE:                            Miss Mabel Swartz – Wingham – Ontario
Occupation:                        Sales Manager                      Religion:     Presbyterian
Enlistment:                         Wingham – January 15, 1916 – 161st Huron Battalion
Enlistment Age:                 25 years     5 months

Private Fetterly with his comrades from the 161st left Canada on the S.S. Lapland and arrived in England on 
November 11, 1916. It was not until the end of February 1918 when he went overseas to France 
He was in action during the Spring German Offensive. He contracted trench fever and was sent to No. 6 Canadian Field Ambulance with muscle pain. He was then moved to a Canadian Casualty Clearing Station and from there he went to Etaples to No. 1 Canadian General Hospital with severe muscle pain on April 6, 1918. Following treatment there he was then invalided back to England to hospital with pyrexia of unknown origin / trench fever and is admitted to Bethnal Green Military Hospital (London) on April 12, 1918.He was a patient for an additional two months and released on 
May 7, 1918. He then moves to the Convalescent Centre at Bear Wood and leaves May 24, 1918 with doctors stating the rheumatism pretty well cleared up.  When released from hospital he was attached to the 4th Reserve Battalion and at that time was promoted to Staff Sergeant and this is where he served until the end of the war.
On February 11, 1919 he took ill with influenza, and was admitted to No. 12 Canadian General Hospital located at Bramshott with a cough and a fever which had begun as a cough, headache and general soreness and a fever some five days previous. He is very ill with influenza on February 12, 1919 and died at 1:30 pm of pneumonia.