Search Results for : Kent Regiment

Served with the legion Auxiliary Corps in England. In service 5 years and 3 months. Returned to Canada from overseas duty aboard the troopship “Pasteur” expect to dock at Quebec City on the 22nd of September 1945.   CDN 20/09/45. KRA. Reported returned from overseas duty CDN 23/09/45. Discharged November 2nd, 1945. Next of kin reported […]

Served three years in Canada and one year overseas in Italy. Reported returning from overseas CDN 28/04/45 to his wife Laverne Rose and family. KRA. Living at 15 Elizabeth St., Chatham, ON. in 1964. Discharged May 10th, 1945. Obit. CDN 2/09/86.

Served in Canada. Discharged April 15th, 1946. LOOKING FOR INFORMATION.

    Born 3/01/1917 at Chatham, ON   The son of Jack and Edith (Tackaberry) Anderson, of 174 Victoria, Avenue, Chatham, formerly of Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada, later living in Wallaceburg.  Jack was educated at McKeough Public School and Chatham Collegiate Institute. Prior to his enlistment he he was employed with the Bank of Montreal” in Chatham and Wallaceburg, […]

Served in Canada only. Hospitalized ten weeks previous to discharge. Discharged July 1941.

  Born in 1893 at Brighton, England. Married to Francis Theresa (nee Hallinan).  They were living on Wellington St. West, in Chatham, ON. Ernest served in the Great War, enlisting in 1914. He went overseas with the First Contingent of the CEF as a Private, but was commissioned a Lieutenant while in England in 1914.  […]

    Born 24/06/1905 at Kingston-on-the-Humber, England.  The son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Appleyard. The husband of Jeanne A. (nee Hubbell), residing with her parents at 427 King St., West, Chatham . Formerly the paymaster for the First Kent Regt. In March of 1942, Major Appleyard was at Niagara-on-the Lake with the Kents when he was on a forty-eight […]

Resident of Dresden at time of Enlistment. The DT 2/01/41 reported that Walter had returned to Chatham after a weeks leave with his wife and family. Discharged March 4th, 1943. LOOKING FOR FAMILY AND SERVICE INFORMATION – Contact GOH Website.  

  Reported given a deferment to farm.

  Born in 1926 Chatham, the son of Thomas and Edith Attewell. No siblings listed. The husband of Ursula Frances (nee Warren), the father of Patrick “Pat” (Krys) and Karen (Goldhawk). He served at Camp Ipperwash during the war. The CDN 14/02/45 reported being on a week-end furlough with his parents. Four years with Kent Regiment Infantry, and […]

Born in Tilbury, ON., the son of Edward and  Elizabeth Baker of 132 Queen St., Chatham, ON. Prior to his enlistment Harvey Baker work on the linotype staff at the Chatham Daily News. The husband of June (nee Morrison).   L/Cpl. Baker and Pte. Jack McLaren of the First Kent Regt. were reported home on a furlough from […]

  Born in Essex, ON. in 1915. Maxwell was married to Margaret (nee Andrews), and they were living at 13 Grand Ave. East, Chatham. In 1940, they had a home at 160 Queen St. in Chatham. He enlisted with the Kent Regt. as a Private 3/08/1940. In December of 1944, Margaret was making her home in […]

  Born in Tilbury, ON. in 1912. The husband of Bertha, they were living at his parents home at 152 Sheldon, Ave., Chatham, ON. The father of William Theodore and Francis William. Pte. T. A. Barnier enlisted with the Kents in July 1940.   Served with Kent Regiment for 3 years prior to the war. Served […]

Stationed with the R.C.O.C. in London Ontario. Discharged March 11th, 1944.

  Bramwell Beardall came to Canada In 1912 and settled in Chatham in 1926 upon the beginning of his legal career. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he enlisted in the Kent Regt. and eventually obtained the rank of Major.      Major Beardall left Chatham for the west coast on the 29th of March.  The […]

  Born 14 March, 1920, in Chatham Twsp., Kent Co., ON. The son of Margeritte A. Beaubien of 294 Queen St., Chatham, ON. Louis enlisted with the Kent in Chatham on 14 August, 1940. He served with the Kents in London, ON., Halifax, NS., New Westminster, and Terrace, BC. He went overseas as a reinforcement […]

  The son of W. E and Florence Beecroft of Chatham, ON., the brother of Joy and Reg. In March of 1942 then L/Cpl. Beecroft married Gwendolyn (Mann) at the bride’s home at Jeanette’s Creek, Kent Co., ON.  Howard would have to rejoin the Kents at Niagara-on-the-Lake following the wedding. CDN 5/03/42. A photo of the […]

   Served for five years in Canada. Was promoted from Private to Lieutenant. Discharged February 1946. Addendum :- Mother’s name is Florence Howard Beecroft and wife’s name is Margaret.  From:- Tracy Gibbons sent to Grant 24/04/13.