Elmer Christopher Gress

Rank:

Sergeant

Regimental number:

773043

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Greenwood Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Alexandra Presbyterian Church

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

343 Colborne Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

343 Colborne Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Railway Mail Clerk

Employer:

Brantford Post Office

Religious denominations:

Presbyterian

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Miscellaneous

BX July 24, 1947

Elmer Christian Gress

A native of Brantford, Elmer Christian Gress died yesterday in the Hamilton General Hospital, in his fifty-fourth year. He had been a resident of Hamilton for the past twenty-seven years and was employed as a railway mail clerk on the Hamilton and Owen Sound run. He was a veteran of the First World War. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. O. Hall, (Norma) Brantford, and a sister, Mrs. Edna Desand, S. Catharines. He is resting at the Truscott Brothers’ Funeral Home, Hamilton, where the service will be held Friday afternoon, followed by interment in Greenwood Cemetery here.