Gordon Stanley Moffat

Rank:

Driver

Regimental number:

305092

Unit at enlistment:

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

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Victoria Public School Honour Roll

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

27 Duke Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

27 Duke Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Telephone Mechanic

Employer:

C.J. Mitchell Garage

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

BX November 13, 1917

Ernest Moffat, Market Street tobacconist, received word this morning that his brother, Bombardier Gordon “Pat” Moffat had been wounded in the arm. He went overseas about two years ago with the 40th Battery and has been in France for about a year and a half. Before enlisting he worked at C.J. Mitchell’s.

BX December 12, 1917

Mrs. D. Moffat, 27 Duke Street, has received official word that her son, Pte. Gordon (Pat) Moffat of the 40th Battery, which left Toronto, had been wounded seriously in the right arm. He is now in the Scottish Red Cross, section 11, Stationary Hospital, B.E.F., and it is reported that it will be six months before he will be again on his feet. He was an employee of C.J. Mitchell before enlistment.

BX January 23, 1975

MOFFAT, Gordon Stanley (Pat) – At the Brantford General Hospital, Wednesday, January 22, 1975, Pat Moffat, in his 81st year, beloved husband of Helen Elizabeth Moffat; also survived by several nieces and nephew, Mr. Moffat was a veteran of the 40th Battery, C.E.F., W.W.I; member of Doric Lodge A.F. and A.M., No. 121, Moore Consistory, 32nd Degree Scottish Rite; life member of Mocha Temple, London; member of Brantford Shriners’ Club, and member of Brant Avenue Untied Church. Friends will be received at the Thorpe Brothers’’ Funeral Home, 96 West Street, from 2 p.m. Thursday. Service Friday, January 24 at 2 p.m. Interment Farringdon Burial Ground. Rev. Ronald A. McCaw, minister of Brant Avenue Untied Church will officiate.