Glen Douglas Millard

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

164146

Unit at enlistment:

84th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Commemorated at:

Victoria Public School Honour Roll

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Elgin

Birth city:

Vienna, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

33 Palace Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

33 Palace Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Waiter

Religious denominations:

Baptist

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Wounded

BX September 20, 1916

Pte. G.D. Millard On Wounded List – Was One of the 84th Men Who Wintered in Brantford – Hit in Chest

Mrs. G.D. Millard has received word that her husband, Pte. Glen Douglas Millard, was wounded on September 2. His injuries consist of a gunshot wound in the chest. Pte. Millard enlisted and left here with the 54th Battalion, and was one of the many from that battalion who was transferred to the 75th immediately when they arrived overseas. He went with the 75th to France, and had only been in the trenches about two weeks when he received the effect of the German gunfire. He is a married man, and his wife and two children reside at 7 Mary Street. Previous to enlistment he boarded with his father in the American Hotel barns.

BX September 21, 1916

Officially Reported

Private Thomas Martin of Paris, Ont. and Pte. Glen Douglas Millard, 297 Nelson Street, city who were previously unofficially reported wounded and whom mention was made in columns of The Expositor recently, are today mentioned in the official lists.

BX January 9, 1917

Are Returning Home

Included in a party of returned men invalided home from England who arrived at Quebec last evening are three Brantford men. Glen Douglas Millard, Fred Thomas Palmer and George Tear.

Private Glen Douglas Millard went overseas with the 84th Battalion and was wounded last September. It is thought probable that the Palmer is Corp. Palmer, an old Veteran of the South African war who went overseas immediately following the outbreak of war in August 1914. G. Tear of Echo Place went overseas with the third contingent.

BX January 16, 1917

Veterans Returning

In all probability three more returned soldiers will slip back into the city this evening. They are Private Glen Douglas Millard, 297 Nelson Street, Gunner Fred Thomas Palmer, 16 Northumberland Street, and C.Q.M.S. George Tear, of Echo Place. Word was received from the Military Hospitals Commission in Toronto today that the returned heroes would likely leave tonight on the 6 o’clock G.T.R. train.

BX January 16, 1917

Is Returning

The expectation this morning was that three returned soldiers would return tonight, but a further telegram received at noon by J.S. Dowling, chairman of the Soldiers’ Aid Commission, brought the information that only one, Pte. Glen Douglas Millard, 297 Nelson Street, would arrive. A reception will be tendered him.

BX January 17, 1917

Two Invalids Returned Home – Pte. G.D. Millard Wounded by Shrapnel in the Lungs – C.Q.M.S. Tear Returns

Twice yesterday was the Soldiers’ Aid Commission disappointed as two men who have nobly taken their share in the struggle raging across the seas slipped quietly back into the city after having been invalided home. Both men made an unostentatious entrance into the city and missed the receptions prepared for them.

Private Glen Douglas Millard is home on six months furlough. He was wounded by shrapnel in his right lung at the battle of St. Eloi. He returned home on the 3.52 G.T.R. train from Hamilton instead of on the 7.32 as expected. His home is at 297 Nelson Street.

Suffering from a weak back C.Q.M.S. George Tear has also been invalided home. He went overseas with the 36th Battalion. He came in on the radial from Hamilton yesterday afternoon, dropping off at Echo Place, where his children are residing with his wife’s sister, Mrs. G. Davidson.