LEST WE FORGET 225 LOCKHART, John Franklin WWI John was born on February 1, 1891, to Andrew and Maggie (Morrison) Lockhart of Wallace, Perth County, Ontario. He was the fifth oldest child of eight children and was born after the family moved from Ontario to a farm just north-east of Rocanville. John was farming when he enlisted on March 28, 1916 in Moosomin, Saskatchewan with the 217th Overseas Battalion (the same day as his brother). He sailed aboard the Olympic and arrived in England on June 9, 1917. He was injured by a mine explosion on August 17, 1917 and received contusions to the face and was hospitalized. He was sent to France with the 46th Battalion arriving on November 8, 1917 and served there for ten months. He was granted a Good Conduct Badge on June 25, 1918. He received a gunshot wound (bullet) to the right calf in early September 1918 and was hospitalized in France until being sent to Reading War Hospital (Reading was one of Britain’s main First World War medical centres, housing casualties sent to recover from the frontlines). He also convalesced at Woodcote and Epsom in England. He was invalided and wounded and sent home where he was on leave to Rocanville from September 30, 1918 to October 12, 1918. He was entitled to wear one gold casualty stripe and two blue chevron stripes. He was discharged in Regina on January 23, 1919. John farmed 1.5 miles northwest of Rocanville. He joined the Great War Veterans Association in Rocanville on October 21, 1919. John married Kate Anderson in Rocanville and they had two children, Margaret and Lloyd, a World War II veteran. John died suddenly in 1925 after an appendix operation. His children were very young when he passed away. His wife, Kate, operated the telephone switchboard in Rocanville and died in 1977. John and Kate are both buried in Webster Cemetery in Rocanville. LOCKHART, Joseph Russell WWI Joseph was born on October 17, 1882 (1884 in war records) in Listowel, Perth County, Ontario to Andrew and Maggie (Morrison) Lockhart. He was the oldest of eight children. The family moved west to a farm near Wapella and later to a farm just north-east of Rocanville. Russell went to a log cabin school for two years. His parents sent him back to Ontario to live with his grandparents and go to school and then business college. He was employed as a dining car conductor with the CNR. He enlisted on March 28, 1916 in Moosomin and was sent to Camp Hughes, Manitoba with the 217th Battalion on June 6, 1916. He arrived in England on June 9. 1917 aboard the Olympic and after training at Bramshott, he was sent to France on November 18, 1917 with the 46th Battalion. He received a Good Conduct Badge on June 15, 1918. He was wounded with contusions on October 12, 1918 and spent some time in Boulogne Hospital. He suffered with an infectious respiratory disease in November and December at General Hardelot Hospital at Pas-de-Calais, France. He was sent back to Canada aboard the Baltic on January 29, 1919 after serving for one year and one month in France. He was officially discharged on March 10, 1919 in Winnipeg. Russell married Lillian Baker in 1920 and the couple resided in Winnipeg where he resumed working as Dining Car Conductor for CNR. They had three daughters and retired to Vancouver around 1950. Russell died on January 24, 1965 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Burnaby, BC.
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