David Charles Dougherty

Rank:

Driver

Regimental number:

305069

Unit at enlistment:

8th Brigade C.F.A., 40th Battery

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Wounded:

Yes

Date of death:

November 18th, 1917

Cemetery:

St. Sever Cemetery Extension - Rouen, France - P.III.R.11A.

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

145 Nelson Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

145 Nelson Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Electrician

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Died of Wounds (Shrapnel Wounds both thighs) at No. 9 (Lakeside U.S.A.) General Hospital Rouen.

BX November 20, 1917

Several Brantford men are reported wounded in a late casualty list today. Private Reginald Grant Raynor, 28 Mount Pleasant Street, who was a toolmaker, went overseas with the first Brant County Battalion. He was single. Private William Howard White was a married man and lived at 53 Charlotte Street and also went overseas with the first Brant County Battalion. Private William Henry Spain was also reported wounded. Private David Charles Dougherty, formerly of 145 Nelson Street, is single and went overseas in September 1915.

BX November 23, 1917

“Died of Wounds,” is the sad news received by Mrs. D.C. Dougherty of her husband, Driver David Charles Dougherty of the 32nd Battery. The cause of death was a gunshot wound in the thigh, which was received on Nov. 9, death taking place on the 18th of the month at Rouen hospital. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife and son, Leonard, of 236 Marlboro Street, his mother and father, 66 Clarence Street, and one sister, Mrs. Fred North, whose husband is at the front.