BX June 5, 1917
Mr. and Mrs. James Kelso, West Mill Street, have received word that their son, Roy Joseph Kelso, had been wounded with gunshot in the leg, and had been admitted to 3rd Canadian General Hospital, Boulogne, France. He was formerly bookkeeper at the Massey-Harris Company office.
BX June 6, 1917
Gunner Roy Joseph Kelso, who went overseas with a battery in August, 1915, is reported wounded. He was single and resided at 9 West Mill Street.
BX June 13, 1917
To be hit in the neck by a piece of shrapnel, which passed up through his neck into his mouth, with the result that he was able to spit it out, was the experience of Gunner Roy Joseph Kelso, son of Mrs. Jon Kelso of 9 West Mill Street, who is now in the Northumberland War Hospital at Gosforth, Newcastle on Tyne, England. A letter was today received by his mother telling in detail of his miraculous escape. The wound was received at Vimy Ridge on May 24. During the evening ammunition had been carried from a dugout to a gun and then he and Reg. Scragg of Brantford went down the road to have a smoke and give Fritz a chance to cool down. It was here that he was struck in the neck by the shrapnel. He had a very narrow escape as the shrapnel narrowly missed the arteries in his neck, which, if cut would have caused him to have bled to death in a few minutes. Gunner Kelso was formerly on the office staff of the Massey-Harris Company.
BX January 17, 1918
Wounded
Word has been received officially by James Kelso, 9 West Mill Street, that his son, Roy Joseph Kelso, has been wounded for the second time, sustaining a fractured leg. He belonged to the 32nd Battery and was formerly a clerk in the Massey-Harris office.
BX January 21, 1918
Reported Today
In the official casualty lists issued at Ottawa today, Gunner Roy Joseph Kelso of this city is reported as wounded.
BX December 11, 1918
Veterans Have Returned Home – Number of Them were Victims of German Poison Gas
A party of Brantford soldiers returned home yesterday afternoon and were met at the depot by Secretary MacDonald of the Soldiers’ Aid Commission. All the members of the party were walking cases but had suffered more or less from the effects of gas poisoning. Raymond Girdlestone was probably in the worst condition of any of the party, but all were mighty glad to get back to good old Brantford once more. The party included the following: Roy J. Kelso, 9 West Mill Street; Albert Bennett, Terrace Hill; R.M. Ross, Grandview; Raymond Girdlestone, 144 East Avenue; Robert Charlick, 148 Wellington Street; and F.J. Hooper, L. Shuert, Baldwin Avenue remained at Whitby hospital.
