Earl Minto Chugg

Earl Minto Chugg
21st Battalion CEF

Photo above is from 1915 (Earl on left) with an unknown commrade

Mar 3, 1896	Born at Ottawa Ontario
Nov 7, 1914	Attested into the 21^st Battalion at Kingston Ontario Ø Number 59158 (temporary number 1821 Ø Next of kin given as John Chugg (father) of Ottawa Ontario Ø No occupation is given Ø Previous military experience given as GGFG (Governor General’s Foot Guard) at Ottawa Ø Religion given as Church of England
May 6, 1915	Embarked the RMS Metagama at Montreal
May 15, 1915	Disembarked at Devonport England and proceeded to West Sandling Camp, near Hythe, Kent
Sep 14, 1915	Embarked the St Seiriol at Folkestone
Sep 15, 1915	Disembarked at Boulogne France
Sep 27, 1918	Wounded
Oct 7, 1918	Struck Off the Strength of the 21^st Battalion
May 5, 1961	Deceased at Kingston General Hospital, Kingston Ontario Beechwood Cemetery Ottawa Ontario

Earl M. Chugg and Lily E.Hilton married in the district of Eastbourne in the first quarter of 1918. Their daughter, Grace V. Chugg was born in the first quarter of 1919. He returned home at the end of the war to find that his mother had died the year before.

Earl, accompanied by his uncle, Ebenezer Rogers Chugg, crossed the border into the United States on April 22, 1923. Earl's occupation was listed as a machinist. He was headed for Cleveland, Ohio.

Earl Minto Chugg, married his second wife, Lydia Wagoner Chugg in 1926.

The 1930 U.S. census lists him as being of English Canadian descent and he works as a metal finisher in an auto factory.

Below he is shown with his granddaughter, Sharon Craik

Above he is shown with his granddaughter, Sharon Craik and his father, John Chugg

Photos and family information provided by, and reproduced here with the permission of, Michael Chugg