BX September 15, 1916

Pte. Ernest Walsh Has Been Wounded – Was Member of Dufferin Rifles Contingent and Resided at 227 West Mill

This morning’s casualty list contains the name of four Brant County men who have been wounded in action. In addition to Major A.M. Ashton and Archibald McIntyre of whom mention was made in yesterday’s Expositor, Ernest Walsh, Brantford, Ont., and Alfred Hanlon, Paris, Ont. are officially reported wounded.

Ernest Walsh is a Canadian by birth, joined the 38th Dufferin Rifles contingent on August 24, 1915. He is a married man 35 years of age and previous to leaving for overseas lived with his family at 227 West Mill Street.

BX February 20, 1918

More Veterans Returned Home – Pte. Ernest Walsh Was Victim of a German Bayonet Thrust 

Among the other Brantford soldiers returning home from the scene of conflict this week are J.G. Knott, Lance Corp J.A. Little, C. Roberts and E. Williamson. Pte Ernest Walsh, West Mill Street, is also an arrival. He was a victim of a German bayonet thrust. His battalion (75th) pulled off a raid on the German trenches at Lens last June and when the operation was over he was one of the stretcher-bearers who gathered in the Canadian wounded from the German lines to prevent them from being taken prisoners. The Huns came back and in the scuffle, Pte. Walsh received a bayonet thrust in the hip, which crippled him. He managed to get across No Man’s Land, however. Pte. Walsh was attested with the famous 84th Battalion in 1915, and came unscathed through the fighting at the Somme, Regina Trench and Vimy Ridge.

Pte. Fred Clawsey who left here with the 36th Battalion in the late Capt. Findlay Fraser’s Company is also home and apparently as well as ever, although he saw 27 months service in France with the 1st Battalion. Pte. Clawsey saw nearly all the important affairs of the British offensive and was several times blown up. But escaped serious injury.