Lorne Percy Hainer

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

773033

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Wounded:

Yes

Date of death:

May 9th, 1917

Cemetery:

Etaples Military Cemetery - Pas de Calais, France - XIX.R.8.

Commemorated at:

Colborne Street Methodist Church

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Oxford

Birth city:

Norwich Township, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

125 Alfred Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

125 Alfred Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Driver

Employer:

Hygienic Dairy

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Died of Wounds (Gunshot wound, head, left leg) at No. 24 General Hospital, Etaples.

BX May 10, 1917

Mrs. Fannie Hainer, 125 Alfred Street, has received official notification that her son, Private Lorne Percy Hainer was severely wounded in the head and leg on April 17, and is seriously ill in a military hospital in France. Private Hainer was a member of the first overseas battalion of the Dufferin Rifles.

BX May 16, 1917

Mrs. Fanny Hainer received official word that her youngest son, Lorne Percy Hainer, had died of wounds in No. 24 General Hospital, Etaples, France. Private Hainer, according to official word, was wounded on May 7 by a gunshot in left leg and head and died on May 9. Private Hainer was born in the vicinity of Norwich 26 years ago and remained at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Hainer, until his father’s death some five years ago. Since then he had lived in Brantford with his mother and brother at 125 Alfred Street. At the time of his enlistment he was engaged as foreman at the Hygienic Dairy, where he had been employed for three years. He enlisted in March, 1916 with a local battalion, and after arrival in England was drafted to France about December 1.