William Lorne Calhoun

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

823030

Unit at enlistment:

142nd Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

September 27th, 1918

Cemetery:

Sains-les-Marquion British Cemetery - Pas de Calais, France - I.A.20.

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Middlesex

Birth city:

Aisla Craig, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

18 Alfred Street, London, Ontario

Next of kin address:

18 Alfred Street, London, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Painter

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action.
Location of Unit at Time of Casualty: Near Arras-Cambrai Road, East of Marquion.

BX October 15, 1918

Mr. J.A. Calhoun, 311 Dalhousie Street, this morning received official word this morning from Ottawa that his son, Pte. William Lorne Calhoun, 142nd (London’s Own), had been killed in action, no date being given. The deceased young man enlisted in London, where he had been residing for some years. He was well known in Brantford through visiting with his father, who was a former resident of London. Private Calhoun leaves a wife and four small children.