Frank Chester Reed

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

164329

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Shenstone Baptist Church, Wesley United Church

Birth country:

U.S.A.

Birth county:

Kennebec

Birth city:

Waterville, Maine

Address at enlistment:

Grandview, P.O., Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Grandview, P.O., Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Farmer

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

BX August 13, 1918

Officially Reported

In the casualty list issued from Ottawa today, I. Brazil, Eagle’s Nest, Brantford, is reported among the wounded, and Frank Chester Reed of Grand View is reported as having been gassed.

BX December 5, 1946

Frank Chester Reed

The death occurred Thursday morning in the Hamilton Veterans’ Hospital, of Frank C. Reed. He was in his fiftieth year, and was a resident on R.R. 1 Paris. Born in Maine, U.S.A., he came to this district at the age of six. During the First Great War, he served with the 125th and 84th Battalions, C.E.F., and was gassed in France. He was a member of the Canadian Legion. Surviving besides his widow, the former Emily J. Hiller, are one daughter, Frances, Brantford, three sisters, Mrs. William Pash, City, Mrs. Robert Smith, City and Mrs. Lorne Lucas, Burford, and one brother, Fred, Alberta. He is resting at the Beckett Funeral Home until Saturday when funeral services will take place with interment in the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX December 9, 1946

Frank Chester Reed

The funeral of Frank C. Reed was conducted Saturday afternoon from the Beckett Funeral Home to the Soldiers’ Plot, Mount Hope Cemetery. Rev. John Kelman officiated and Comrade E.R. Edwards was in charge of the pallbearers. G. Gaydon, J. L. Lune, L. Lewis, W. Thompson, D. MacKellar and J. Turner, all Legionnaires from Branch No. 90. William Holloway was bugler.