Charles Clifford Slemin

Rank:

Lieutenant

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Victoria Public School Honour Roll

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

York

Birth city:

Toronto, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

28 Lorne Crescent, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

28 Lorne Crescent, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Student

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

BX September 16, 1918

Chief Slemin received official word last night that his son, Lieutenant Cliff Slemin, had been wounded in action, receiving a gunshot wound in the heel. The injury was reported as slight. Lieut. Slemin has been admitted to the Third General hospital at Le Treport. Lieut. Duff Slemin was wounded a few weeks ago. Thus both boys of the family join the honor roll.

BX September 18, 1918

In the official list of casualties from Ottawa at noon today Lieutenant Cliff C. Slemin is officially reported among the wounded.

BX February 22, 1962

Crown Attorney C.C. Slemin Dies

C. Clifford Slemin, QC, Brant Crown attorney died in the Brantford General Hospital today at 66.

He has been crown attorney since 1948.

Mr. Slemin was born in Toronto in 1895 and came to Brantford nine years later when his father, Charles Slemin, was appointed Chief of police here. He was educated in Brantford public schools and the BCI before going to the University of Toronto. Mr. Slemin graduated from Osgood Hall in 1921 and started practice here the same year with his brother, J.A.D. Slemin.

Subsequently, they joined the firm of Harley and Sweet.

His schooling was interrupted during the First World War in which he served with the 125th (Brant) Battalion and was wounded in France. He was demobilized in December, 1918. He resumed his interest in the military three years later when he joined the Dufferin Rifles, remaining with that unit until he retired as a captain in 1936.

When the Second World War broke out he was called back to service in the Dufferin and Haldimand Rifles Canadian Army (Reserve) and by 1944 rose to be commanding officer of that unit with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Before returning to private practice after the Second World War, Mr. Slemin was appointed Queen’s Counsel. The appointment came in September, 1954.

Mr. Slemin was Progressive Conservative candidate for Brantford in the provincial election of 1948, but was defeated at the polls. Later the same year he was appointed crown attorney.

Mr. Slemin was one of the founding members of the Brant Curling Club, a past president of the Brantford Golf and Country Club and a senior member the Brantford Rotary Club. Last year his fellow barristers presented him with an inscribed barometer to commemorate his 40th year as a practicing barrister.

He was also a past master of Ozias Lodge, AF and AM, a member of Merton Lodge of Perfection, Rose Croix Chapter and Moore Consistory, Hamilton, a past district deputy grand master of Brant District AF and AM and a member of the Scottish Rite Association.

Mr. Slemin is survived by his wife, the former Ivy Hostein; a daughter, Mrs. Peter (Elizabeth Jane) Cross, of Toronto; a son, Charles Dufferin Slemin, of Kitchener; a brother, J.D. Dufferin Slemin, QC of Brantford.

He will be at Thorpe Brothers Funeral Home from Sunday afternoon. Funeral service will be at Grace Anglican Church on Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m. Interment will be in Farringdon Burial Ground. Ven. F.C. McRitchie will officiate.