John Edward Frost

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772253

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Grace Anglican Church

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Greater London

Birth city:

London

Address at enlistment:

21 Crown Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

21 Crown Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Brush hand

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

Miscellaneous

BX November 3, 1945

John Edward Frost

John Edward (Jack) Frost, fifty-one, 4 Blakey Avenue, passed away this morning in the Brantford General Hospital. Mr. Frost, who was born in England, came to Brantford thirty-nine years ago and had resided here since. He enlisted in 1915 in the 125th Battalion and served overseas with the First Battalion. When he came back from overseas he joined the staff of the Water Works Department, where he was employed until illness forced his retirement. He was a member of the Canadian Legion Post No. 90 and the Sergeants’ Mess, Dufferin and Haldimand Rifles. Mr. Frost was for many years bugle major for the D. and H.R. Surviving besides his widow is a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Hinton, Brantford, and two brothers, Joseph, who recently returned home from overseas and is now stationed in Camp Borden, and Herbert B., Buffalo, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Lake, Toronto, also five grandchildren. Mr. Frost is resting at the Beckett Funeral Home until Monday afternoon when the funeral will be conducted. Interment will be in the soldiers’ Plot, Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX November 6, 1945

John Edward Frost

The funeral of John Edward Frost was conducted Monday afternoon from the Beckett Funeral Home to the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery, where interment took place, Rev. F.W. Schaffter was in charge of the service. The pallbearers were C.H. Clark, F. Winter, S. Howell, B. Taylor, G. Ramsey and W. Durrant. T. Stevens, S. Lowe, G. Renwick, W. Hinton, A. Wolstencroft and H. Twidale were the flower-bearers. The guard of honor consisted of H. Shaw, P. King, G. Bisset, F. Wilde, Sgt.-Maj. Webster and Sgt.-Maj. Horney. E.R. Edwards was in charge of the Legion party, R. Hughes was the bugler.