Search Results for : 1st Depot Battalion Western Ontario Regiment

Private John Lloyd Adams left for overseas with a draft from the 1st. Depot Battalion February 28th, 1918 on the Grampian, and after a short training with the 4th. Reserve Battalion, crossed to France May 1st, to the 47th. Canadian Battalion, September 27th, 1918, he received a gunshot wound in the right thigh, and, after […]

The second son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Adkin Dresden; the younger brother of Lorne C. A116327 and Marion Jeanne US Army Lieut. Nurse. Kenneth was with the First Kent’s in 1940 training in both the east and west coast. He would later join the Provost Corp and was with them shortly after D-Day […]

Son of Parents- Mr. Charles & Mrs. Charlotte Adkin. Reported returning from overseas on board the S. S. “New Amsterdam” part of a contingent of RCR members. It was reported in the CDN 13/01/45 that after serving in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. It was while in Italy during the battle of Ortona he was seriously wounded in […]

David left Chatham for training at Camp Francis, London May 31st, 1916 and went with the battalion to Camp Borden July 8th returning to Chatham on October 28th. He left Chatham for overseas March 22nd, 1917 arriving in England April 8th. Pte. Aiken served as cook from the time of his enlistment until April 18th, […]

Sapper Frank Aikins left for overseas June 29th, 1918, and arrived at Seaford Camp July 20th, 1918, where he trained until proceeding to France September 20th, 1918, to the 1st Canadian Engineering Battalion. Sapper Frank Aikins received his discharge at London, Ontario, May 17th, 1919, due to demobilization.

Served with the legion Auxiliary Corps in England. In service 5 years and 3 months. Returned to Canada from overseas duty aboard the troopship “Pasteur” expect to dock at Quebec City on the 22nd of September 1945.   CDN 20/09/45. KRA. Reported returned from overseas duty CDN 23/09/45. Discharged November 2nd, 1945. Next of kin reported […]

Discharged January 6th, 1946.

Private Hilliard Allen trained with the 186th. Battalion, embarking for England the latter part of March 1917. He trained at Bramshott Camp until July 1st, when he was admitted to Hospital at Bearwood, suffering with rheumatism, and later to Buxton, being discharged from here October 13th. Private Allen was transferred to the W.O.R.D. and crossed […]

Allen proceeded overseas with 229th Battalion Apr. 8, 1917. Proceeded to France to the Machine Gun Section of the 46th Battalion. Received wounds in Nov. 1917.

Essex Scottish Regiment non-permanent Militis until time of Enlistment. Served 5 years and 8 months in Canada. Acted as a weapon training officer, was commissioned from Private to Captain step by step. Was Stationed at No.12 Basic Training Centre in Chatham as Musketery Instructor. Discharged January 19th, 1946.

Of 15 Lorne Avenue, Chatham, before the war, William had been a member of ‘A’ Company Kent Regt. (Machine Guns) in Chatham where he rose to the rank of Sergeant. When the war broke out, he was recommended by Lt. Col. T. E. Codlin, commanding officer of the Kent Regt. for a position that would […]

Served three years in Canada and one year overseas in Italy. Reported returning from overseas CDN 28/04/45 to his wife Laverne Rose and family. KRA. Living at 15 Elizabeth St., Chatham, ON. in 1964. Discharged May 10th, 1945. Obit. CDN 2/09/86.

    Cecil married Grace Belle (nee Cameron Kelly) CDN 8/08/38. They had three children and were living at 215 Park St., Chatham, ON. Cecil was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Anderson, formerly of Ireland. They had been settled in Chatham for approximately eleven years. Cecil had two sisters, Edna Dorothy and Gladys Mary, serving in the […]

Private John A. Anderson went overseas with the 186th. Battalion March 26th, 1917, and after training at Bramshott, proceeded to France September 9th, 1917, transferring to the 1st. Battalion. At Passchendaele November 10th, he received shrapnel wounds in the back and both arms, and admitted to No.3 Australian General Hospital, later being transferred to Bradford, England, […]