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Tom Norris

Rank: 
Sergeant
Regimental number: 
109350
Unit at enlistment: 
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Wounded: 
Yes
Cemetery: 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario
Commemorated at: 
St. Luke Anglican Church
Birth country: 
England
Birth county: 
Essex
Birth city: 
Harwich
Address at enlistment: 
11 Gordon Street, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
11 Gordon Street, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Brickmaker
Religious denominations: 
Church of England
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
19

Letters and documents

BX May 23, 1917

Corporal Tom Norris is now in the No. 32 Stationary Hospital at Wimereux suffering from a gunshot wound in the left leg, according to the word received by Mrs. R.G. Norris, of 103 Oxford Street. He went away as a private with the C.M.R., in the second contingent and has been in the trenches since August 1915. 

BX November 7, 1917

Mrs. Norris, 39 Elgin Street, received news yesterday of the wounding in the face of her son, Sergeant Tom Norris of the Mounted Rifles. This is the second time he has been admitted to hospital through wounds, and once on account of having contracted pleurisy. He has been in the trenches since August 1915.

BX November 14, 1918

Were Welcomed

Private Percy Fisher with the 36th Battalion, and Sergeant Tom Norris, who went overseas with the 4th C.M.R., got home last evening with the honorable scars of battle, and were welcomed by Secretary MacDonald. Private Fisher was wounded last spring, a shell landing near a party of soldiers, killing all but himself. He is still on crutches, the injury to a foot having proved severe. Sergeant Tom Norris received wounds in the face and head. 

BX January 31, 1966

Tom Norris

Tom Norris, 71 of 224 Sydenham Street, died Friday at his residence.  He was born in Essex, England, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Norris, and had resided in Brantford for 56 years.  Mr. Norris served for 20 years as a rural mail carrier, retiring in 1963.  During the First World War he was wounded overseas while serving with the Fourth Canadian Mounted Rifles.  He was a member of Branch 90 Royal Canadian Legion, Reba Masonic Lodge, Mohawk Lodge IOOF, and St. James’ Anglican Church Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Ralph (Shirley) Barker of Perth; three brothers, George, Frank and Basil all of Brantford; four sisters, Mrs. William (Dorothy) Blacker, Mrs. George (Blanche) Ireland, Mrs. Charles (Edith) Casey, Mrs. Herman (Annie) Huff all of Brantford; one granddaughter, Trudy.  His wife, the former Gertrude Estelle Huff, and a son Thomas Herman Norris, died in 1964.  He was also predeceased by a brother, Fred, in 1948.  Mr. Norris is at the Beckett Funeral Home until 3 p.m.  Tuesday for service in St. James’ Church at 3.30 p.m.  Rev. F.A. Cook will officiate.  Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.

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