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He was the son of John Christian Egner, who came from Germany in the 1890's. John Christian Egner married locally, his wife Florence Bell Frank of Bridgewater, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, stating he was single and employed as a clerk. Florence died at the age of 24, and he remarried Roxana Hebb. John C. and Roxana had no children. Frederick Albert and his brother, John William both served overseas in First World War. John William survived the war and came home to marry. He had two children, Frederick and Margaret. Frederick served with the Norwegian Merchant Navy in the Second World War, being torpedoed three times coming out of Texas bound for England. Margaret married a Navy Lieutenant, David Hunter. John William died at the age 28 from Tuberculosis as did both his children, Frederick and Margaret while in their early twenties. Edna (Monk) Egner, wife of John William and morher to Frederick and Margaret, lived into her nineties and never remarried. With the exception of Frederick Albert, all the Egners are buried in the Brookside Cemetery, Bridgewater NS.

Commemorated on Page 586 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.