Frederick Thomas Gilham

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
3048
Unit at enlistment: 
Welland Canal Force
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Cemetery: 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario
Birth country: 
England
Birth county: 
Greater London
Birth city: 
London
Address at enlistment: 
8 Mohawk Road, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
8 Mohawk Road, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Labourer
Religious denominations: 
Church of England
Marital status: 
Married
Age at enlistment: 
50

Letters and documents

BX July 18, 1939

Frederick Thomas Gilham

The death took place Monday evening, of Frederick Thomas Gilham, beloved husband of Elizabeth Jane Palmer, in his seventy-fifth year.  Left to mourn his loss beside a sorrowing widow, are one daughter, Mrs. R. Sparkes, Toronto, and four sons, Albert George, George Henry, and Alfred Richard, all of this City and Thomas, New York.  Mr. Gilham was a member of Trinity Anglican Church, the Dufferin and Haldimand Rifles and the 19th Lincoln and Welland Regiment.  The deceased is resting at Thorpe Brothers’ Funeral Home, West Street, where the service will be conducted Wednesday afternoon.  Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX July 20, 1939

Frederick Thomas Gilham

The funeral of Frederick Thomas Gilham was conducted Wednesday afternoon from Thorpe Brothers’ Funeral Home, with interment in the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery.  Rev. T.D. Painting, Rector of Trinity Anglican Church conducted the services.  Bugler A.B. MacKinnon sounded “Last Post,” at the graveside.  The pallbearers were A.G. Gilham, G.H. Gilham, T.E. Gilham, R.P. Sparkes and C. Grant.