511 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND THOMSON, Homer Cress Homer was born in Galt, Ontario on January 18, 1893. He was a 25-year-old shoemaker, from Galt, Ontario when he was conscripted in January 1918 to help fill in the manpower gaps left by a falloff in voluntary enlistments. He sailed on the SS Grampianfor England on February 5, 1918 it was an eleven-day crossing. A member of the 47th Canadian Infantry Battalion as of September 14, 1918, he was killed in action on November 1, 1918 while fighting in The Hundred Days Campaign one of 271 soldiers from the 47th Battalion killed in the last one hundred days of World War I. Homer left his worldly goods to his sister, Jennie Caldwell, and left behind his father, Frank of Galt, Ontario. He rests with 149 other casualties at Aulnoy Communal Cemetery, France Plot A2 Grave 12. TIDBALL, Wilfred John Wilfred was born in Bosanquet Township on October 10, 1895. He enlisted in the Army on June 13, 1918 and joined the West Ontario Regiment, 1st Depot Battalion to serve in World War I. He took engineer training in Brockville, Ontario. He arrived in England on August 18, 1918 and was hospitalized on October 15, 1918 with influenza and pneumonia. Wilfred sailed home on SS Regina on September 12, 1919 and was discharged on September 22, 1919. TIDBALL, Harvey Weir Harvey was born in Bosanquet Township on December 18, 1899. He enlisted in the Army on May 29, 1918 with the West Ontario Regiment. His unit sailed on August 5, 1918 on the SS Bellerophon, arriving at Witley, England on August 15, 1918. After his service in England during World War I, he sailed to Canada on RMA Carmania on June 2, 1919. He was discharged on July 18, 1919 and farmed all of his life. Harvey passed away on October 30, 1980 and is buried at Ravenswood Cemetery. He was president of The Royal Canadian Legion Thedford Branch 278.
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