Canadian WWI Pair. Allemang. German descent (Berlin). Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Correctly named 3131138 Spr OH Allemang CE

Otto Henry Allemang was born to Henry and Emma in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario in 1892. His father Henry was a grocer from Berlin, Germany.
On his enlistment papers, he states his Aunt, Margaret Specker as next of kin, she was living in Brooklyn, New Jersey, USA.
In 1911, we find him living at 202 Breithaupt St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

A late entrant to the War, he didn’t arrive in France until late 1918. Possibly due to the hostile nature against German/Austrian citizens in Canada at the time?

‘After Britain declared war on Germany hundreds of German and Austrian Canadians, many of them reservists, rushed to the Austrian and German Consulate in Toronto searching for mobilization details. Most were unable to get passage to Europe and remained in Canada for the duration of the war. Anti-German sentiment was very high in Canada during the First World War. Almost nine thousand German Canadians were placed in internment camps by the Canadian government while countless others were forced to register with the authorities and were subjected to strict government surveillance’

As much is evident, feelings were running high against people of those ethnicities.

He served with the 9th Battalion Canadian Engineers.

Obituary: Otto Allemang The death of Mr. Otto Allemang of 902 Breithaupt Street [death registration says 202], Kitchener, occurred very suddenly, at Galt on July 25th. Deceased was born on Oct. 14, 1892, and was in his 45th year.
He was a foreman at the Dominion Electrohome, Kitchener, for the past 5 years, a member of the Canadian Legion, having served overseas for one year with the 9th Battalion. The late Mr. Allemang formerly resided in Elmira and a number of relatives reside here.
He is survived by his wife Alma (nee Kirsch) and one son Otto, 16. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Allemang.
The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 o’clock from the Schrieter-Sandrock Funeral Home to Woodland cemetery where interment took place. Rev. A. Orzen of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church (Mo. Synd) officiated.

Elmira Signet 29 Jul 1937

He is presume to have died suddenly due to a brain hemorrhage.

The medals have original long silk ribbons.