Harold Douglas Mack (1896 - 1953)

Born 13 Aug 1896 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

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Died 5 Dec 1953 at age 57 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Biography

Corporal Harold Douglas Mack enlisted in Winnipeg in April 1915 and served in France as a Corporal with the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles. He was wounded in August 1918 and returned to Canada five months later.^[1]

Harold was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on 13 August 1896.^[2] His parents, Edward James Mack and Kathleen Elizabeth Haseltine, were both born in Hampshire. They were married on Portsea Island in 1881 and their first two children were born there, Charles Edward (1882) and Kathleen Haseltine (1883). When their next daughter, Lena Muriel, was born they were living in Chatham, Kent. They were still there for the 1891 census with Edward was listed as a carrier manager. Harold’s family moved back to Portsea Island before he was born and his father died late in 1899, when he was three years old. His mother would die 4 years later.^[3]

In 1901, 4 year old Harold and sister Lena (14) were both living with their elder sister Kathleen (17) in Portsmouth due to the illness of their mother.^[4]

In 1911 14-year-old Harold Douglas Mack was a student at the Infant Orphan Asylum in Wanstead.^[5]

In 1912, at the age of 15, Harold enlisted as a bugler with the 9th Battalion County of London.^[6]

In 1915, Harold enlisted with the CEF in Winnipeg. He gave his birth as August 13, 1895, in Portsmouth, and his next of kin was Miss K Mack of Southsea, England. There are two attestation records - one in April, when he was living on Bannatyne Avenue in Winnipeg and working as a carriage painter, and a second in December 1915 when he was farming at Whitewater, Manitoba. Apparently he was discharged in October and then re-enlisted.^[1]

On July 16, 1916, Harold Douglas Mack married Hazel Agnes Brown in Winnipeg, Manitoba.^[7] During Harold's service, Agnes would reside in Franklin, Manitoba.^[1]

After the war, Harold and Hazel lived in Franklin and Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. They also spent a few years in Kenora, Ontario where their second daughter, Olive Summers, was born in Kenora in May 1926By the early 1930s Harold and his family had moved to Winnipeg where he was employed as a meat inspector with the Department of Agriculture. Harold and Hazel were divorced in December 1946 and we would marry a second time to Dorothy Brown.^[3]

Donald died in 1953 and was buried at Chapel lawn Memorial Gardens^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Library and Archives Canada Personnel Records of the First World War RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 5828 - 38 Item no. 169978 Link to Service Record
2. ↑ "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2FQ3-YH1 : 1 October 2014), Harold Douglas Mack, 1896; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, Portsea Island, Hampshire, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Kenora Great War Project accessed 05-17-2021 Bio of Harold Mack
4. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSF4-55V : 20 May 2019), Harold Mack in household of Kathleen Mack, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Kinston And East Southsea subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
5. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWFZ-299 : 13 September 2019), Harold Douglas Mack, Wanstead, Essex, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
6. ↑ The National Archives; Kew, London, England; Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents; Reference Number: WO 97 Reg No bugler/1459 Ancestry.com Free Image View
7. ↑ Web: Manitoba, Marriage Index, 1881-1937: Manitoba Consumer and Corporate Affairs; Manitoba, Canada Ancestry Record 70600 #1032581
8. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/216402713/harold-d-mack : accessed 08 May 2021), memorial page for Harold D Mack (1896–1953), Find A Grave: Memorial #216402713, citing Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens, Winnipeg, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada ; Maintained by Donald Schmidt (contributor 47813253) .