Personal Details | |
Date of Birth | June 20, 1900 |
Place of Birth | Norman, Ontario |
Country | Canada |
Marital Status | Single |
Next of Kin | Mrs F Pritchard, mother, Norman, Ontario |
Trade / Calling | Labourer |
Religion | Church of England |
Service Details | |
Regimental Number | 6744 |
Service Record | |
Battalion | Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) |
Force | Canadian Expeditionary Force |
Branch | Canadian Cavalry |
Enlisted / Conscripted | Enlisted |
Date of Enlistment | May 28, 1917 |
Age at Enlistment | 17 |
Theatre of Service | Canada |
Prisoner of War | No |
Survived War | Yes |
Death Details | |
Date of Death | October 1996 |
Age at Death | 96 |
Reginald Edgar (Ray) Pritchard was born on 20 June 1900 in Norman, Ontario, a small community a couple of kilometres west of Kenora in northwestern Ontario. His father Frederick Pritchard was from Fort William, Ontario while his mother Jane Beatrice Linklater was born in Moose Factory, Ontario where her father worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company. Frederick and Jane married on 10 December 1887 in Fort William where Frederick was working as a mariner. Children born in Fort William were Clara Rubena (1888-1889), Daniel Frederick (1890), Anna Elizabeth (1892) and Pearl Christina (1895). After the birth of Pearl the family moved to Norman where Frederick first worked at a local saw mill. Children born in Norman were Elenora Jane (January 1897 – August 1897), Edna Laura (March1898 – September 1898), Ray, William James (1902), Clifford Harrington (1906), and Verna Louise (1909). Frederick, known as Captain Frederick Pritchard to his friends, worked as an engineer for the Rat Portage Company for a number of years and then was employed as a forest ranger and boat driver by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests for thirty years.