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Harold Colmer

Rank: 
Corporal
Regimental number: 
56163
Unit at enlistment: 
19th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Cemetery: 
Greenwood Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Brant
Birth city: 
Brantford, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
67 Colborne Street West, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
67 Colborne Street West, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Carpenter
Religious denominations: 
Wesleyan
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
26

Letters and documents

BX May 25, 1916

The Delicacies Were Relished – Pte. H.F. Colmer Tells How Comestibles From Home Were Received  

The following letter was received from Harold F. Colmer of the 19th Battalion, by Mrs. W.G. Colmer, 67 Oxford Street.

Dear Mother and Father,

I received your most welcome letter and box dated March 30, containing the eggs, cake and chili sauce. Thanks for your excellent packing they came through all right and when I told the boys they came from home, Canada, you should have seen the look of astonishment depicted in their eyes. By the way, the boys I attend to are Roy Smith and Art Riley. The eggs were in perfect condition and at once cooked by us, and I assure you greatly enjoyed. The cake and sauce will be attended to later. I also received a parcel from Mrs. Hobbs and letter from Miss Fraser, but not the box she mentioned. I will write acknowledging the same.

I am thankful to say I am in the best of health and feeling fine as a fiddle and if you could only see me you would confirm the fact. My furlough is surely coming and I will send you a photo.

I am pleased to say the weather is fine – much the same as June in Canada. I must congratulate you on your excellent packing and when I come home I will pat you on the back and give you any amount of royal salutes.

Your loving son,
Harold

BX March 27, 1936

Colmer, Harold (56163)

Harold Colmer, 226 Clarence Street, passed away Thursday evening in the Brantford General Hospital following a short illness.  He was in his 48th year.  Born in Brantford, he had lived here all his life.  He was a member of the 19th Battalion and served nearly five years overseas, returning home in February, 1919.  He attended the United Church and was a member of the Knights of Pythias, of Harmony Lodge, I.O.O.F., and of the Native Sons of Canada.  His wife predeceased him six years ago, and he is mourned by one brother, Fred Comer, Bowmanville and two sisters Mrs. William McCartney, Brantford, and Mrs. Joseph Williams, Brantford Township.  The funeral will be conducted Saturday from Reid and Brown’s Funeral Chapel to Greenwood Cemetery.

BX March 30, 1936

Harold Colmer

The funeral of Harold Colmer, 226 Clarence Street, was conducted Saturday afternoon from Reid and Brown’s Funeral Home to Greenwood Cemetery, where interment was made.  The services were in charge of Rev. E.C. McCullagh, Minster of Alexandra Presbyterian Church, and at the graveside an Odd Fellows’ service was conducted by Noble Grand George Padfield and Past Grand F.G. Harris of Harmony Lodge. There was a large attendance and a profusion of flowers, testifying to the esteem in which the deceased was held.  The pallbearers were: George Stewart, George Pate, Irvin Crowe, F.G. Harris, C. Thomson and Bert Brown, representing the Knights of Pythias, Harmony Lodge, I.O.O.F. and the Native Sons of Canada.

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