Ernest Williamson

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

164370

Unit at enlistment:

84th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Commemorated at:

St. John's Anglican Church

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Lancashire

Birth city:

Greater Manchester, Leigh

Address at enlistment:

64 Grant Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

64 Grant Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Labourer

Employer:

Massey-Harris Co.

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

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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.