Otto enrolled in Canada (being employed at the time in the USA). His details are as follows:

Born: 7 December 1888 Dandenong

Service Number: 2908

Rank: Sergeant

Unit: Lord Strathcona’s Horse

Service: Canadian Expeditionary Force

Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918

Date of death: 1 December 1917

Place of death: near Gouzeaucourt, France

Cause of death: shot through the heart

Age at death: 28

Place of association: Dandenong

Cemetery or memorial details: Canadian War Cemetery in northern France; name inscribed in Vimy Ridge Memorial

Source: see attached Statement of Service and Military Record

Embarkation information:

Trade: Traveller with Mackay, Blair, Smith & Co.

Marital status: Single

Mother: Mrs Edith Lowenstern (nee Angel), died 26.08.1895

Date Joined: 26.11.14

Awards: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal