Horace Edward Chard

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

270462

Unit at enlistment:

215th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Kent

Birth city:

Dover

Address at enlistment:

Ingersoll, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Tourquay, England

Trade or calling:

Labourer

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Accident/Illness

BX September 13, 1917

Local Men Are Now At Quebec – Nine Local Veterans Have Reached Port From England

QUEBEC, Sept. 13. Following are some of the Ontario soldiers who have just reached here, invalided home after active service.

BRANTFORD, N.W. Hazelton, William Bacon, H.E. Chard, Harry Dillmer, C. Eyre, William H. Pyke, J. Saggese

BX September 19, 1917

Six Men Returned Home

Six more Brantford men and one Paris man, invalided home from the front arrived back in the city yesterday afternoon. Of the five men who are home three were members of the 215th Battalion. Yesterday’s arrivals are: Pte. H.A. Dillmar, 4 Kennedy Street, injured foot; Pte. Joseph Saggese, over age; Pte. Chard, broken knee, all of the 215th; Pte. W. Bacon, 278 Wellington Street, 58th Battalion, wounded; Pte. Pyke of Oakland, and Sergt Barker of Paris.

A deputation from the Soldiers’ Aid Commission and the Great War Veterans’ Association met Privates Bacon and Dillmer, who arrived, back on the 3.52 p.m. G.T.R. train. Pte. Pyke returned via the T.H. and B. and was taken to the home of A.E. [?], at Oakland by Mr. George [?], Pyke formerly worked [?]. Saggese was over age, 58 [?] Dillmer not Chard reached [?] both suffering injuries to [?] limbs. Sergt. Barker was also over age and physically unfit.

[?] Lieut. Kenneth Wood, who went overseas with the 215th Battalion and to France with the 116th Battalion and was the first to reach the firing line from that battalion according to Pte. Dillmer. Pte. Dillmer’s conversation with a reporter gave credit the rumor that Capt. [?] had been killed in action. [?], he points out, on a communication line in France.

Pte. Dillmer had a good word for the food in England, which is plentiful and substantial. Anyone who lacks he says does not know what he is talking about. He also had a lot of praise for the work being done by the Y.M.C.A. Dillmer spent some time at East Sandling where there are a number of Brantford boys. Sergt. Thornthwaite is taking a drill instructor’s course. And “Jimmie” Robinson is still in the pay corp. The [?] Bros., are both drill sergeants-majors there. Corp. Wakeling the orderly corporal for the 2nd C.O.R.D. Pte. Green injured his [?] while wrestling and expects his discharge.