Lawrence Sanford Claus

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

739794

Unit at enlistment:

114th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

St. John's Anglican Church (Ohsweken)

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Six Nations, Tuscarora Township, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

Six Nations, Ohsweken, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Six Nations, Ohsweken, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Labourer

Religious denominations:

Anglican

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

Miscellaneous

BX July 24, 1943

Lawrence Sanford Claus

The death occurred yesterday of Mr. Lawrence Sanford Claus, 49 years of age at the Brantford General Hospital. He has lived all his life in Brant County. He fought for four years and was wounded in the last war, in the 114th Battalion in England and in France. Left to mourn his loss, besides his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Walter Knappett and Mrs. Oscar Knappett, both of Windsor. The deceased is resting at the Beckett Funeral Home, where the service will take place tomorrow afternoon, with interment in the Soldiers’ Plot at Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX July 26, 1943

Lawrence Sanford Claus

The funeral service for Lawrence S. Claus was conducted Sunday afternoon from the Beckett Funeral Home to the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery. Canadian Legion members were in attendance in a body and formed a guard of honor. Rev. F.W. Schaffter was in charge of the services at the Funeral Home and at the graveside. E.R. Edwards, S. Howell, C. Grant, H. Twidale, A. Mattice and A. Sherman, comrades from the Canadian Legion acted as pallbearers.