KRUG, Herbert
1018142
28th Light Infantry Battalion
Private
Born: July 28th 1887, Tavistock, ON
Died: December 19th 1960, Calgary, Alberta
After School: Grain Buyer
Enlisted: April 11th 1916 with the Western Canada Battalion.
He spent over 2 years in the trenches; was gassed and left for dead in the trenches; his friend took him back behind the lines and revived him; suffered from trench foot and had no feeling from his knees down
Served: France
Discharged: December 1918 [According to Tavistock
Gazette, he returned from overseas on S.S. Melita]
After the War: Grain Buyer in Saskatchewan and Alberta; retired in 1949 to Calgary
Family: Parents - Henry S. and Caroline [Dalgleish] Krug
Brothers - Harry, James, Fred, Hartman
Sisters - Isobel, Mrs. Carl Eifert, Mrs. Thomas Hislop, Mrs. Gordon McDonald, Mrs. W.M. Mitchell
Wife - Rose Knibbs
Sons: Donald Henry, married Neva Orlando, 2 sons - Donald Allan and Kenneth Herbert
Robert Teddy, married Anna Theresa Mertler, 3 children - Wendy Louise, Robert Terry, Lori-Anne