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David Lyle

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
452462
Unit at enlistment: 
58th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Wounded: 
Yes
Cemetery: 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario
Commemorated at: 
Alexandra Presbyterian Church
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Brant
Birth city: 
Brantford, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
233 Drummond Street, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
233 Drummond Street, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Gear maker
Religious denominations: 
Presbyterian
Marital status: 
Married
Age at enlistment: 
40
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Letters and documents

BX September 12, 1916

Private David Lyle on Way Home

Another Brantford hero is on his way back to the city, invalided home from the front according to a telegram received this morning from Halifax. The message was received from Pte. David Lyle, of the 4th Battalion, by his brother, Robert, of the customs department. It was to the effect that he had landed at Halifax yesterday. Pte. Lyle enlisted early in the history of the war and has been in the trenches for over a year. What the extent of his injuries are is unknown, as it was not even known here that he had been wounded.

BX September 14, 1916

On His Way Home

A dispatch from Quebec states that the 200 invalided soldiers who arrived in Halifax this week had reached that port and were being discharged. Among them is Pte. David Lyle of the 4th Battalion, the particulars of whom were mentioned in Tuesdays Expositor

BX September 19, 1916

Pte. David Lyle Returns Home – Was Given Three Months Convalescent Leaving Owing to Trench Strain

Although not expected in the city until this evening, Pte. David Lyle is back at his home again on Drummond Street. Pte. Lyle slipped unostentatiously into the city this morning on the 9.48 T.H. & B. train. Pte. Lyle went into the trenches last fall and has been there practically ever since. The steady strain was rather more than his constitution could stand and he is home on three months’ convalescent leave.

He enlisted here with the 58th Battalion and upon arriving in England was sent with a draft to the 12th Battalion under Col. Howard. Later he was transferred to the 4th Battalion under Col. Colquhoun. He is a married man residing at 233 Drummond Street. Previous to enlistment he was superintendent at Fair’s, cigar-makers.

BX August 25, 1947

David Lyle Dies Suddenly

David (Dave) Lyle, Kitchener Avenue, well known in Brantford, died suddenly at his home this morning in his eighty-fourth year.  A member of the Canadian Legion, Mr. Lyle served during the First Great War in the Fourth Battalion, from 1915-1917.  He attended Alexandra Presbyterian Church and was a member of Maccabees Lodge, Redemption Tent 15 and of Orange Lodge, L.O.L. 742.

Born in Brantford, Mr. Lyle lived here all his life.  As a cigar-maker, he was employed by the T.J. Fair Cigar Company for many years and he later worked as a customs carter until his retirement.  An organizer of baseball, he managed the Roberts-Vanlane Beaver hardball team in 1911, when that team won the City championship.  Mr. Lyle was Chairman of the School Board from 1907 until 1914 and he laid the cornerstone of King George School in 1914.

Let to mourn, besides his widow, are: five sons, Hugh, Samuel, Harry, John and Robert, all of this city; three daughters, Mrs. Harley Howey (Mary), Midhurst; Mrs. Edwards Sevier, (June), Princeton, and Mrs. Robert Farquhar, (Edith), Brantford; one brother, Thomas Lyle, Brantford; two sisters, Mrs. John Irving, Buffalo, and Mrs. George Craig, Mount Pleasant, as well as 18 grandchildren.

Mrs. Lyle is resting at Beckett Funeral Home where service will take place Thursday afternoon with Legion honors.  Interment will be in the Soldiers’ Plot, Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX August 29, 1947

Davis Lyle

The funeral of David (Dave) Lyle, was conducted yesterday at the Beckett Funeral Home.  Rev. John Kelman officiated.  The funeral was largely attended and floral tributes were profuse.  Interment was in the Soldiers’ Plot, Mount Hope Cemetery, and the pallbearers were comrades from Branch 90, Canadian Legion, in charge of E.R. Edwards.  They were H. Kneller, H. Twidale, D. Monkman, A. Wright, R. Richardson and E. Obe.  Bugler K. Richardson sounded the Last Post at the Cemetery.

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