Arthur Harry Lynn

Rank:

Gunner

Regimental number:

305085

Unit at enlistment:

8th Brigade C.F.A., 40th Battery

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:

York

Birth city:

Toronto, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

140 Darling Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

140 Darling Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Paper Cutter

Employer:

MacBride Press

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

BX August 22, 1916

Driver Lynn Reported Gassed at the Front

This morning’s casualty list contains the names of several more men from Brantford and surrounding district who have been wounded in action, taken seriously ill.

BX January 30, 1966

Arthur Lynn

Arthur Lynn, 70, of 109 Colborne Street, died Sunday in the Brantford General Hospital. He was born in Toronto, and had resided in Brantford since 1928. While in Toronto he was employed with the Toronto TPC, and for 13 years was with Brantford Coach and Body Limited, Brantford. Mr. Lynn served overseas with the 40th Battery Royal Canadian Artillery during the First World War. Surviving besides his wife, Audrey Biggs, the former Audrey Brown, are a son, Gordon of Ottawa, a daughter, Marjorie of Toronto; a step-daughter, Mrs. William (Mildred) Howlett, three step-sons, Larry, Leonard, Delbert, all of Hamilton; a sister, Mrs. George (May) Burton of London; two brothers, Ernest of Toronto, George in northern Ontario; 23 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren. His first wife, Daisy Chadwick, died in 1929. Mr. Lynn is at the McCleister Funeral Home for service Wednesday at 3.30 p.m. Interment will be in the Soldiers’ Plot, Mount Hope Cemetery.