Enlistment No. 406573 <=== this is the # on his CEF file?!?! Record Source Canadian Jewish Military Casualties Fonds No. CJC0001 Archival / Genealogical Genealogy Records Repository Canadian Jewish Archives
Theory: Versailles, Frances 6/2/1915 => Shorncliffe, England => Daily Messenger
Enlistment records suggest he was hiding from his family... but article in Hstd paper suggests otherwise.
Look at British Jewry Book of Honour -- record for H Mendelsohn incomplete. Intro lists possible sources -- was this in a Jewish newspaper??? Not in Newspapers.com Canadian records... where else?
REMEMBER IT'S THE NATZ THAT PROVES THAT THE CEF GUY IS THE GUY WHO MARRIED RUTH MENDELSOHN
Weird issues with CEF file: - Step-sister Gladys Gibson (pp. 1, 41, 95?) - Sister Gladys Levy / Mrs. Jack Levy in Hull (pp. 1, 57** (Springbank, Hull), 95?) - But real bro named (pp. 1, 41) - When he said he lost 2 fam members and only he & mother left -- not true -- she died Apr 1914 (p. 70**)
~~p. 61 -- top-level chronology -- fits w/ when bro Samuel went to Eng to visit sick relative. Hmm, maybe not, p. 70 says he was in Canada Oct 1918?!~~ was supposed to return, but got sick p. 96 says returned Sep 27 1919; sister died & brother killed in RAF (Egypt)?!?! p. 107 another top-level chronology p. 80+ gunshot wound
p. 29 - Shorncliffe Mil. Hosp. -- the place that telegrammed Hstd p. 35 - 1915 sailing