Frederick D. Marett

Headquarters, 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment)

Frederick Dumares Marett was part of a small cadre of Canadian Army Medical Corps orderlies attached to the original 49th Battalion (E.R.). He left a wife and a career as a distiller behind to enlist and was in charge of the water detail once in France and Flanders. Although wounded by a German shell burst during the Cambrai road offensive of 1918, he recovered and was granted a commission in the Army Ordinance Corps in October 1918.

Upon returning home, he could not find his wife. In late 1917, his letters to his wife began being returned as undelivered and despite making inquiries, no leads could be found as to her whereabouts. She vanished without a trace.