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Thomas Essery

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
772866
Unit at enlistment: 
125th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Wounded: 
Yes
Cemetery: 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Durham
Birth city: 
Oshawa, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
Paris Hill Avenue, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
Paris Hill Avenue, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Moulder
Employer: 
Buck Stove Co.
Religious denominations: 
Methodist
Marital status: 
Married
Age at enlistment: 
39

Letters and documents

BX June 18, 1917

In today’s casualty list Private Thomas Essery of Brantford is reported wounded. He went overseas with the first overseas battalion for the 38th Dufferin Rifles. He is a married man and lived on Paris Hill Avenue and was a moulder by trade.

BX January 23, 1924

Thomas Essery

After an illness lasting for a little over a week, Mr. Thomas Essery, Paris Hill Avenue, Grandview, passed away in Brantford General Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, January 23.  There are left to mourn his loss a wife and five children.  The funeral will be held on Thursday at 2 p.m. from the Shenstone Memorial Baptist Church.

BX January 25, 1924

The funeral took place yesterday from the Reid and Brown undertaking parlors, of Mr. Thomas Essery, Paris Hill Avenue.  The cortege first preceded to Shenstone Memorial church of which deceased was a member.  Rev. N.R. McLeod conducted the service and the many present included relatives, friends, war veterans and the heads of the Pratt and Letchworth departments, the firm with which deceased was employed.  The pallbearers were Messrs. Elliott, Parney, Simpson, McFarland, Storey, Nephew.  Interment was in the soldiers’ plot at Mt. Hope cemetery.

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