Pte. Herbert Joseph TUFFY
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Name Herbert Joseph TUFFY Prefix Pte. Birth 8 Nov 1884 Cobden, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
[1] Gender Male Death 26 Oct 1918 Edmonton, Alberta, En Route To Siberia
[2] Burial St. Pius V Roman Catholic Cemetery, Osceola, Renfrew Co., Ontario
Person ID I33736 Whitewater Region Early Families Last Modified 21 Nov 2021
Father Edward TUFFY, b. 20 Feb 1850, Ross Twp., Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
d. 18 Mar 1922, Cobden, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
(Age 72 years) Mother Ellen SHIELDS, b. 30 Jan 1855, Ross Twp., Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
d. 10 Apr 1920, Cobden, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
(Age 65 years) Marriage Jun 1872 [3] Family ID F20244112 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Photos 
Tuffy, Herbert
from the newspaper clipping of his basketball team
Cobden Memorial Hall Plaque with Names of Fallen Soldiers
The Cobden Sun, Nov 13, 1919
WWI Memorial Plaque - Cobden Legion
Photograph provided by Wayne Bennett
Documents 
Tuffy, Herbert Joseph WWI Service Record
Contacted Spanish Influenza on troop train and died in Edmonton Isolation Hospital
http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=9814-32
CHx-Memorial Hall Corner Stone Laid
newspaper article-The Cobden Sun, Aug 29, 1919 p. 1
CHx-Two documents found in corner stone of destroyed Memorial Hall
Newspaper Clipping from the 1958 Scrapbook of Irene McLaren,
provided to Fay Bennett by Jack McLaren

Tuffy, Pte. Herbert J. - Commonwealth War Graves
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2756909/HERBERT%20J%20TUFFY/
Tuffy, Pte. Hervert Joseph - Canadian Virtual War Memorial
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2756909?Herbert%20Tuffy1903 RCI Football Team
newspaper clipping from the collection of Valerie Peever
Tuffy, Pte. Herbert Joseph obituary
The Eganville Leader, Nov 8, 1918 p. 1
Headstones 
Gravestone-Tuffy, Herbert Joseph
St. Pius V Roman Catholic Cemetery
photographed by Fay Bennett, 2018
Gravestone-Tuffy, Herbert J. military stone
St. Pius V Roman Catholic Cemetery
photographed by Fay Bennett, 2018

Gravestone-Tuffy, Edward & Ellen nee Shields; children Herbert J. & Catherine
St. Pius V Roman Catholic Cemetery
photographed by Fay Bennett, 2018
Histories 
Tuffy, Pte. Herbert Joseph - Casualty WWI
Articles and information compiled by Fay Bennett from sources noted
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Sources - [S576] Automated Genealogy, Census - Canada, Ontario, Renfrew Co., Ross Twp., - 1901, (Index to 1901 Census of Canada with Digital Images, http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/cache/index.html).
- [S871] Church, Les & Aldine, Newspaper - Births, Deaths and Marriages Abstracts From the Renfrew Mercury 1871 - 1924.
- [S764115] Bible-Tuffy Bible, (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).
- [S576] Automated Genealogy, Census - Canada, Ontario, Renfrew Co., Ross Twp., - 1901, (Index to 1901 Census of Canada with Digital Images, http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/cache/index.html).
