Joseph Hutchison Goyit

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772838

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Hespeler Cemetery, Cambridge, Ontario

Commemorated at:

First Baptist Church

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

South Dumfries Township, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

164 Darling Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

164 Darling Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Moulder

Religious denominations:

Baptist

Marital status:

Widower

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

BX September 14, 1917

Mrs. Goyit of 165 Darling Street this morning received a message from Ottawa that her son, Private Joseph Goyit has been wounded in the shoulder, leg and hand, and had been admitted into 23 Casualty Clearing Hospital. Pte. Goyit is a widower and has four children here in Brantford.

BX May 14, 1919

GOYIT – BAYST

A very pretty wedding was solemnized at St. John’s church, London, Eng., on April 4, when Miss Ethel Bayst of Derwent road, London, England, became the bride of Pte. J.H. Goyit of Brantford. After the wedding ceremony the guests proceeded to the bride’s home, where a wedding luncheon was served. The bride received many beautiful and useful gifts.

BX March 16, 1944

George H. Goyit

A veteran of the First Great War, George Hutchison “Joe” Goyit, former resident of this City, now of Hespeler, passed away Wednesday night in the Galt General Hospital in his sixty-fourth year. Born in Haldimand County, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Goyit, he served overseas with the Canadian forces and in 1919 married Miss Ethel Bayst in England. He was a moulder by trade and also a member of the Hespeler branch of the Canadian Legion. Surviving are his wife, five daughters, Mrs. Stanley Keating and Mrs. Leonard Rickert, Brantford, Miss Violet Goyit, Hespeler; Miss Edna Goyit, Toronto, and Mrs. Sevier, Oshawa, and five sons, William, Brantford, Norman and Donald, Hespeler; Arthur, Detroit, Mich., and Pte. George, overseas. Three sisters and a brother also survive. The funeral is being held Friday afternoon, with a service conducted at the Stager and Company funeral Chapel, Queen Street West, Hespeler. Interment will be in the Hespeler Cemetery.