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The Roll lists his address as "Of Warman, Saskatchewan & late of Peterborough". It records his regimental number 41106; it was actually 441106.
(CWGC records that Private H.E. Wyer regimental number 441106, died aged 28 on 12/12/1918 serving in 53rd Battalion of the Canadian Infantry. His grave reference is 5.121.W.45. Special Memorial at Warman Cemetery in Saskatchewan, Canada. They record him as the son of Sarah Ann Wyer of 20 Maidstone Terrace, Sleaford, Lincolnshire & the late George Wyer, and as the husband of Annie Wyer of Warman, Saskatchewan.
Herbert Edwin Wyer's birth was registered in 1890 in the Bourne District of Lincolnshire. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents George and Sarah at Market Place, Folkingham in Lincolnshire, which was given as his place of birth. On the 1901 census he was living with his widowed mother Sarah at 222 Cromwell Road in Peterborough. (On the 1911 census his mother was living at 3 Ivy Place Idle Road, Bradford).
Herbert was recorded on the ship's manifest of the "Kensington" that left Liverpool on 30/9/1903 bound for Canada. On the 1906 Canada census he was staying with his brother James at 13 Souris, Manitoba. Herbert's attestation form at Library and Archives Canada records that he was born 29/8/1890 at Folkingham, and was living at Warman when he enlisted on 11/5/1915).