1893 December 5th
Born Father Badan Singh Bains Mother Candi Kaur Mahilpur, Hoshiarpur Dist., Punjab
1903 March
Married Wife: Pritam Kaur, her father Bhagwan Singh Gill, her grandfather Nihal Singh Gill Jamsher, Jullundhur Dist., Punjab
1907
Arrival in Canada, British Columbia
1912-1913
Moves to Toronto for 2 years 1914-1915 Farm Works on Farm in Rosebank Ontario for 6 months
1915 April 23
Joins Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Smith Falls Ontario 59th Battalion C.E.F. stationed at Barriefield Camp near Kingston
1915 Aug 27
Boards SS Scandinavian II at Montreal for voyage to England
1915 Sept 5
Arrives in England transferred to 39th Reserve Battalion
1916 Jan 21
Arrives in France as part of 39th Reserve Battalion joins 20th Battalion
1916 June 2
Wounded in head with shrapnel wound
1916 June 3
Admitted to No. 8 Stationary Hospital Wimereux
1916 June 5
Transferred to No. 5 Convalescent Depot Boulogne
1916 June 29
Unit Rejoins 20th Battalion in field
1916 July 20
Hit with bullet shattering left leg below knee, St. Eloi Belgium
1916 July 21
Hospital Sent to No 3. Canadian General Hospital Boulogne where wound dressed
1916 July 23
Transferred to hospital in England aboard Belgian Hospital Ship Jan Breydel
1916 July 24
Admitted to 2nd Western General Hospital in Manchester
1916 Aug 9
Mentioned in Toronto Daily Star newspaper as seriously ill
1916 Sept 26
Admitted to King's Canadian Red Cross Convalescent Hospital : Bushey Park
1916 Nov 4
Transferred to Canadian Military Convalescent Hospital Woodcote Park, Epsom
1916 Dec 22
Discharged from Woodcote Park hospital to Canadian Casualty Assembly Centre
1916 Dec 25
Starts developing serious cough
1917 Mar 11
Camp Stationed at West Sandling Camp, north of Maidstone, Kent, 1st Canadian Convalescent Depot
1917 Mar 13
Admitted to Canadian Military Hospital, Hastings with suspected tuberculosis
1917 Mar 19
Surgery Removed fluids from right lung
1917 Mar 28
Tests positive for TB
1917 May 5
Discharged from Hastings hospital with TB of lung 1917
May 11
Shipped aboard HMHS Letitia to Halifax
1918 Aug 1
Discharged from Army at London Ontario transferred to Freeport Sanatorium TB Hospital Kitchener
1919 Aug 27
Buried in Canadian Soldiers grave at Mount Hope Cemetery Kitchener
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