George Walter Le Cras was born on May 24, 1894, in Saint Helier, Jersey, to George Henry and Victoire Eugenie (Le Chevalier) Le Cras. As a young man, George worked as a carpenter and served 10 months as a Private with the Royal Militia of the Island of Jersey. George left Jersey and immigrated to Canada in October 1912 and settled in Woodstock, Ontario.
On March 22, 1916, George enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Toronto and was drafted into the Canadian Engineers. Upon his arrival in France on July 2, 1916, George was assigned to the 1st Field Company, Canadian Engineers. He participated in the battles of the Somme, Vimy Ridge, and Passchendaele before sustaining a gunshot wound to the head on December 11, 1917. After convalescing for four months, George rejoined his unit on April 13, 1918. He attained the rank of Corporal by the time of his discharge on April 23, 1919.
While initially returning to Woodstock after his discharge, a little over a month later, he immigrated to the United States. According to his naturalization papers, George entered the United States on a Canadian Pacific Railway train at Detroit, Michigan, on May 28, 1919, before moving to Ohio to work as a carpenter. On November 2, 1925, George married the love of his life, Edith Ellen Gray, in Franklin, Ohio. The couple would go on to have two children: a daughter named Ellen Mae Le Cras and a son named Edward George Le Cras. George became a naturalized American citizen on February 4, 1927.
After working in Ohio as a carpenter for more than 40 years, George and his wife retired to Daytona Beach, Florida. He passed away there on May 4, 1978, and was buried in Daytona Memorial Park Cemetery.
(I don't have his actual obituary yet, so I might add more biographical information at a later date.)
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