Charles Joseph Thomas Hoffman

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772559

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Kent

Birth city:

Dover

Address at enlistment:

175 Wellington Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

175 Wellington Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

House Painter

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

BX May 7, 1917

Another Brantford man who went into action with the first draft from the first Brant County Battalion is today reported ill in the person of Private Charles Hoffman, of 175 Wellington Street. Word was received in a letter from himself that he was in a London hospital suffering from poisoning in both legs. Word was never received here to the effect that he was ill. Before enlisting he was a painter for A. Osborne and R.C. Chave.

BX December 8, 1917

Name Changed

Word has been received by Mrs. Hoffman, 178 Wellington Street, that her husband, Pte. Charles Hoffman of the 125th, who was wounded in the fighting at Vimy Ridge, by permission of the British government, has been allowed to change his name to C. Harris, owing to the German tinge to his name. Being an ultra loyalist, he made the plea that he be given a deed of poll, and with was granted