CWGC burial at Beechwood Cemetery: Ernest Samuel Povah

Ernest Samuel Povah was born 15 September 1883 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England, the son of William Povah and Mary (nee Pace).
In the 1891 census he is with his maternal grandparents Samuel and Ann Pace. He claimed 7 years service with the 53rd Shropshire Regiment and 3 years as an Able Seaman with the Royal Navy.
Emigrating in 1910 he is found in Ottawa in the 1911 census.
He married Harriet Jean MacGregor on 16 December 1914 at McLeod Street Methodist Church, Ottawa. They had one child, Dorothy May.
On enlistment in June 1916 the 207th battalion he was shown as a hardware salesman living on Edison Ave in Westboro.
Ernest died in the Mowatt Memorial Hospital, Kingston on Saturday 25 October of tuberculosis of more than one year’s duration.
He is interred in Lot 177. South-West part. Sec. 19. 3681 at Beechwood Cemetery.