Joseph James Archer

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

56804

Unit at enlistment:

19th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Essex

Birth city:

Waltham Abbey

Address at enlistment:

117 Grand River Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

117 Grand River Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Dyer

Employer:

Slingsby Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Miscellaneous

BX May 24, 1966

Joseph J. Archer

Joseph James Archer, 86, of 5 Spring Street, died Monday in the Brantford General Hospital. He was born in Waltham, Abbey, England, and came to Canada in 1905 and to Brantford in 1909. Mr. Archer was a member of the Dufferin Rifles, a veteran of the First World War, serving with the 125th Battalion CEF. In his younger years he was active in sports and was a member of the Telephone City Pigeon Club. Mr. Archer was a member of the Church of England. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Ellis (Ivy) Young, Mrs. Clarence (Florence) Pickering; two sons, Frederick Archer and Joseph Archer, all of Brantford; 16 grandchildren; 25 great-grand-children. His wife, the former Rose Emma Ellis, died in 1955. Mr. Archer is at the Beckett Funeral Home for service Thursday at 2 p.m. Rev. E.A. Horner of St. Paul’s Anglican Church will officiate. Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.