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Joseph Frost

Joseph Frost
Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
53060
Unit at enlistment: 
18th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Wounded: 
Yes
Cemetery: 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario
Birth country: 
England
Birth county: 
Greater London
Birth city: 
London
Address at enlistment: 
21 Crown Street, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
21 Crown Street, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Labourer
Religious denominations: 
Church of England
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
19

Letters and documents

BX October 13, 1916

Mrs. L. Lake, 21 Crown Street, received word yesterday that her brother Private Joseph Frost had been wounded and was suffering from shell shock. Private Frost enlisted in London with the 18th Battalion. He comes of a family that has not been backward in answering the call of King and country, two brothers and the father, all being in khaki. His brothers, John and Herbert, are both with the 125th Battalion, while his father, Pte. John E. Frost is with the Home Guard. His father is better known locally as “Jack” Frost. He is an old veteran of the 38th Dufferin Rifles, and has tried to get overseas with every battalion that has left Brantford.

BX October 14, 1916

Yesterday The Expositor announced that Private Joseph Frost, 21 Crown Street, had been wounded, and this is officially confirmed this morning.

BX January 4, 1972

FROST, Joseph – At the Brantford General Hospital, Tuesday January 4, 1972.  Joseph Frost, formerly of 105 Darling Street, in his 76th year; dear father of Mrs. Howard Dench (Betty), Mrs. Reno Sciberras (Jean), Mrs. Douglas Vaughan (Joyce), of Brantford; brother of Mrs. Walter Wakely (Mary) Toronto); 11 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren; predeceased by his wife, Winnifred Knowles Frost, March 21, 1964.  Resting at Thorpe Brothers; Funeral Home, 96 West Street, from Wednesday noon.  Service Thursday January 6, at 2 p.m.  Interment in the Soldiers’ Plot, Mount Hope Cemetery.

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