Rank unknown Edward Bertram Hooper
PERSONAL INFORMATION
MILITARY INFORMATION
Rank unknown, 26th Battalion, Infantry (Army).
RESEARCH INFORMATION
A letter written by Major Edward Bertram Hooper appeared in the Toronto World newspaper on June 1st, 1917, pg. 11, with the caption "Work of a Chaplain in English Hospital / Is Able to Provide Many Pleasures for Canadian Wounded at Ramsgate", link:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=hqOjcs7Dif8C&dat=19170601&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
By this time Hooper was chaplain to Granville Special Canadian Hospital at Ramsgate, England. He writes about distributed cigarettes to wounded soldiers, arranging for special food for patients, organizing moving pictures, motor bus drives for wounded men, arranging a Christmas dinner. Hooper explained that friends from Saint John, New Brunswick, had sent him $2,000 in donations to help these soldiers.
"While I am an Anglican chaplain, I treat all men alike. I never ask about denomination; they are men---who have done their gallant bit--and I am a father to them all, and they are my sons."
The complete digitized file for Major E. B. Hooper is available here.
[Captain (Chaplain) Army Canadian Infantry 26th Battalion ]