Arthur Thomas Menhennet

Rank:

Driver

Regimental number:

322928

Unit at enlistment:

12th Brigade C.F.A., 54th Battery

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Wesley United Church

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Cornwall

Birth city:

Flushing

Address at enlistment:

29 Strathcona Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

29 Strathcona Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Labourer

Employer:

Verity Plow Co.

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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BX April 17, 1917

More Casualties Now Reported

Privates Roy Wesley Tyrrell and Harold Eastman of Brantford are both reported wounded in today’s casualty list. That Major Thomas Roy Coleman of Farringdon P.O., was slightly wounded is officially reported in today’s list. It is presumed that both the men mentioned are former members of the first Brant County Battalion.. Roy Tyrrell was a telegrapher, single and formerly a resident at 81 Grey Street. He is reported by official cable received by his mother to be in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, with a gunshot wound in the left foot. His brother is in France and his father was invalided out of the 215th Battalion. Harold Eastman is a married man who formerly resided at 203 Chatham Street.

The wounding of Private Arthur Thomas Menhennet was reported a few days ago in the casualty list. He enlisted in Brantford, but his next of kin lives in England. Before enlisting he worked at the Verity Plow Works and was connected with the Wesley Church Choir.

BX December 3, 1917

Arthur Thomas Menhennet Returned Home

Among the men who recently returned to Canada is Driver Arthur Thomas Menhennet, according to a dispatch received from St. John, N.B., this morning.

October 23, 1963

Arthur Menhennet

Arthur Thomas Menhennet, of 326 Sheridan Street, died Tuesday in the Brantford General Hospital. Born in Cornwall, England, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Menhennet, he has been a resident of Brantford since coming to Canada in 1912. Mr. Menhennet had been employed by Massey-Ferguson, Verity Works, and was a past president of the Quarter Century Club there, retiring in 1960. He was a veteran of the First World War, serving overseas with the 54th Battery. Mr. Menhennet was active in fraternal circles, a member of the Reba Masonic Lodge, the Morton Lodge Perfection, Scottish Rite, Hamilton; the White Shrine of Jerusalem; the Canadian Order of Foresters, and the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 90. He had been an active member of the Wesley United Church, for over 30 years, and during that time he belonged to the choir there. Later he became a member of the Marlboro Street United Church. Surviving besides his wife, the former Margaret McFadyen, are one son, Arthur Alexander; two daughters, Mrs. Norman (Margaret) Boyd, Dorothy, all of Brantford; one brother, Richard, in England; four granddaughters; one great grandson. Mr. Menhennet will be at the McCleister Funeral Home for service in the chapel Friday at 2 p.m. Rev. Donald E. Tansley of Marlboro Street United Church will officiate. Interment will be in the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery.