John Baboo

Service Number: 830650
Address: Henry Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba
Next of Kin: Wife – Virginia Maude Alice Baboo (124 Smith Street, Winnipeg)
Birth Date and Age: May 27 1888 (29 in 1918) (28 in 1916 census)
Place of Birth: Sharpa, Puajah (Punjab), India
Trade: groom, labourer
Place and Date of Attestation: Winnipeg. Jan. 29, 1916
Military Unit: 144th Battalion, to 44th Bn (formerly 28th Calvary Madras India)
Date of Embarkation: September 18, 1916 from Halifax
To France: Jan. 1917
Medical Records: Wounded in right leg April 1917, Vimy Ridge.
Date of Embarkation: to England April 11, 1917, to Canada Nov. 17, 1917
Date of Demobilization: Medical Board, Montreal, Dec. 5, 1917
Place of Demobilization: Discharged medically unfit Jan. 26, 1918
Later History: P.O. Box 571, Vancouver, BC.
Last Known Address: 837 Bay Street, Victoria
Family Names (Wife, children): Parents not alive in 1916

Wife – Virginia Maude Baboo (Irish, born Indiana, USA about 1888, 28 in 1916 census)
Daughter – Margaret (7 years old in June 1916, born in USA in 1908 or 1906)

Time and Place of Death: July 9, 1948 (?) Saanich, B.C.