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Edward Lester fonds [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1898-1899, 1937.

Reference:

R17322-0-X-E, MG29-E105

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101505

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Edward Lester fonds
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Date(s):

1898-1899, 1937.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.040 m of textual records.

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Fonds consists of the personal diary of Edward Lester, alias Pte. Edward Lincoln, Royal Canadian Regiment, describing his service with the Yukon Field Force, May, 1898 - April, 1899, 112 pages. Included in the diary is a note by H.P. MacMartin, December, 1937. Also available is a typescript of the diary, 143 pages in length.

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Lester, Edward, 1871-1938

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Lester, Edward, 1871-1938 : Soldier

Edward Lester was born at Liverpool, England and immigrated to Canada as a young man. He enlisted in the 60th "Missisquoi" Battalion in January, 1895 under the name of Edward Lincoln. He passed the Infantry Short Course at St. Jean, Que., April-July, 1895 and obtained a Grade B Infantry Certificate. Lincoln then enlisted in the Royal Canadian Regiment, a Permanent Force unit, and was posted to No. 3 Regimental Depot at St. Jean, Que. in August, 1895. He re-enlisted in March, 1898 and served with the Yukon Field Force, 1898-1900. Corporal Lincoln was discharged at St. Jean, Que. in March, 1904.

Still using the name Lincoln, he re-enlisted in the Royal Canadian Regiment at Toronto in January, 1907 and then transferred to the Army Medical Corps. He was discharged upon the expiration of his term of service in January, 1910. The same month he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Dragoons at Toronto, but obtained his discharge by purchase in July, 1910.

Using his own name, Edward Lester enlisted for overseas service in the 33rd Battalion at London, Ont. in July, 1915 and he arrived in England in March, 1916. After service in various units in England, Corporal Lester became ill and was returned to Canada in August, 1917 and discharged as medically unfit for service at Toronto, 30 November, 1917. He died on 23 May, 1938.

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General note:

The original diary was received in 1981 from the estate of Florence Taylor of London, England. The typescript was received in 1996 from Judi Cumming, Ottawa, Ontario.
The typescript of the Lester diary appears to have been prepared prior to the restoration of the diary and is more legible in parts than the original.
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Edward Lester - Diaries, 1898-1899 Canada. Army. Yukon Field Force, 1898-1899

Canada - Canadian Armed Forces - Diaries, 1898-1899 Edward Lincoln

H.P. MacMartin, 1937
Source:

Private

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123-020080-0
1996/0020

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MG29-E105
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