Edward George Wozencroft

Edward George Wozencroft, apparently he went by his middle name, George. 
He served his country in WWI, by signing his attestation papers on the 6^th of January 1916 at Chilliwack, which was also where he was living.
Service Number: 760778  George Wozencroft was born on the 17^th of July 1893 at Walton ,  Radnorshire, Wales.   He listed his occupation as, landscape gardener. He served in the 121^st Battalion (102^nd Battalion) , and the No.11 Special Services Company, C.E.F., reportedly he was a good shot and was a sniper.  E.G. Wozencroft was one of the first residents of Chilliwack to sign up to join the military, and the newspaper made a point of publishing many facts concerning the recruits, and their subsequent status.

The Chilliwack Progress 13 January 1916

The Chilliwack Progress  24 February 1916

Sadly George was wounded and was invalided back home to his adopted country.

The Chilliwack Progress 20 Sept., 1917

The 1913 directory for Chilliwack finds George in  a farming partnership with,
Walter James Preddy (1884 —) he later married Daisy Lotta Baker 1884 — 1976
George and Walter appeared to have been good friends with Archibald "J." Hamilton ( 1873-1948) . The newspapers latter reported that Walter was back in Ontario; and I guess that the partnership had changed, or failed.
In the 1923 Report of the Auditor General, it was reported that George was given $217.33 for destruction of his hogs due to hog cholera. That would have hurt him financially, since the entire herd would have been destroyed.

The Chilliwack Progress 29 April 1925

       In April 1925 George attacked John Ewen, lawyer ( 1867 — 1931  ) 
John Ewen, moved to Chilliwack in 1911, and passed the B.C. Bar exam in 1912,  and practiced law until his sudden death    The  legal after-effect of the assault found George committed to the Provincial Mental Hospital, at Essondale

The Chilliwack Progress 5 Nov., 1914

        Edward George Wozencroft, spent the last 70 months of his life at Essondale, dying of pulmonary tuberculosis  and Dementia Praecox on the 21st of February 1931

The Chilliwack Progress  26 February 1931

George is buried in the Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, B.C., his headstone reads:

760778 Pte. E.G. Wozencroft
1898 — 1931
102 battn., C.E.F.
Lest we forget
mother: Martha Francis, Herefordshire
father: John    b. Walton, Wales

At least three sisters:
      Rosetta Wozencroft   1881  —    7 May 1940 Saanich  Rosetta was married to
            Robert Holdcroft ( 1887 — 1969 )
Arthur Mann ( 1878 — 1952 )   400143   Was married to two of George’s sisters,   Francis "Fanny" Margaret Wozencroft  1890 — 7 March 1920  she was six months pregnant, and contracted influenza; they were married in August 1919 .
Then Arthur Mann, on October 1921 married another of George’s sister’s,   Gertrude May Wozencroft   1883 — 29 April 1961 Victoria, B.C. 

NOTE:  I am fairly certain that there are more siblings that I have missed.  The Wozencroft, Wosencroft, Wozencraft family name is very common in the Radnorshire area of Wales, but not common here, and the BC Archives has a few that appear to be related; or better yet, the LDS Family Search website