Clayton Hubert Smale

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772097

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Wesley United Church

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Huron

Birth city:

Exeter, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

46 Brighton Row, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

46 Brighton Row, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Baker

Employer:

Waterous Engine Co.

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Miscellaneous

BX November 14, 1939

H. Clayton Smale, 42 Eagle Avenue, Brantford, passed away Monday evening in Christie Street Hospital in his fifty-first year after an illness of six weeks duration. Mr. Smale was born in Exeter, Ontario, and was a resident of this city for the past 21 years. He saw active service during the First Great War, leaving St. Thomas with the 91st Battery and was a member of the local Branch of the Canadian Legion. He was a member of Colborne United Church. Besides his sorrowing wife he leaves to mourn his loss one daughter and one son, Mrs. Albert Mountroy, River Rouge, Michigan; and Ellis Clayton at home; his mother, Mrs. Sarah Smale, Brantford; three brothers and three sisters, Ordera, Brantford; Robert Leslie and Howard Bruce, Pontiac, Michigan; Mrs. Clarence Silverthorne, Burford; Mrs. Alvin Armstrong and Mrs. Arthur Armstrong, Pontiac, Michigan. Mr. Smale is resting at his residence until Thursday when the funeral will be held from Reid and Brown’s Chapel in the afternoon. Interment will be in the Soldiers Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX November 17, 1939

H.C. Smale

The funeral of H.C. Smale was conducted Thursday afternoon from Reid and Brown’s Chapel. Rev. H.A. Graham, a former pastor of the deceased, conducted the service, assisted by Rev. Stanley Owen, Minister of Colborne United Church. Many relatives and friends from Brantford and out-of-town places gathered at the services to pay a final tribute to the deceased. Those from out-of-town came from Detroit, Pontiac and River Rouge, Mich.; Guelph, St. Thomas, Tillsonburg and representatives from the Pensioners’ Association, Hamilton. Many floral tributes gave silent testimony to the high regard in which the deceased was held. The pallbearers, F.R. Edwards, H. Yallop, R. Clark, F. Robinson, P. Calvesbert, and W. Hall, were from the Brantford Branch of the Canadian Legion, of which the deceased was a member. The Last Post was sounded by Bugler J. Carter at the graveside in the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery.