244601 Pte. Charles Cornelius Quick Canadian Army 21st (Reserve) Btn. A Coy from:Whitlaw, Alberta, Canada Charles Cornelius Quick was born in La Salle, Illinois 8th of December 1893. His father Ernest Alexander Quick and mother Theressia Jeffery Quick were originally from Kingsville, Ontario. Charles' siblings were Ernest Jr., Effie, Betta, Thomas and Maurice.
He was enlisted in Calgary, Alberta on the 22nd of February 1918 with the First Depot Battalion 13th MD Alberta Regiment. He embarked from Halifax, Nova Scotia on 9th of April 1918 on the HMS Metagama and arrived in Liverpool on 20th of April 1918 (upon there joined the Canadian 21st Reserve Btn., A Coy). In his records it indicates that he was hospitalized at the 12th Canadian Bramshott Hospital as he acquired the Mumps.
Charles was later transferred to the 10th Battalion on 3rd of October 1918, and arrived in France 4th of October 1918. He acquired influenza on on 2nd of December 1918. (His brother Maurice Quick in Monarch, Alberta died on 25th of November 1918 of influenza, his obituary stated that he had a brother Charley who was in France). He was with the 10th Battalion when he left for Canada on the Empress of Britain on 26th of April 1919.
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