Private Daniel Showers Maus

Private Daniel Maus was born in South Dumfries on August 28, 1880. He was a locomotive engineer with the Canadian Pacific Railway when he enlisted on July 23, 1915 at Port Arthur with the 52^nd Battalion. He was 39 years old and single when he enlisted. After arrival in England, he was transferred to the 8^th Battalion, 1^st Division where he remained throughout the war. He never received a scratch.

In the last stage of the war, Daniel was on his way towards Germany when he contracted influenza. He died of the disease on March 24, 1919. Private Daniel Maus in buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, England. He is commemorated at St. Paul’s Methodist (now United) Church in Paris as well as at Paris District High School.