William Mark Mounfield

Rank:

Sergeant

Regimental number:

270435

Unit at enlistment:

215th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Commemorated at:

Wesley United Church

Birth country:

Wales

Birth county:

Wrexham

Birth city:

Chirk

Address at enlistment:

6 Peel Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

34 St. George Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Clerk

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Miscellaneous

BX June 24, 1918

For Invalided Soldiers’ Work – Commission Purchases Sgt. Mounfield’s “Lines of a Lunger”

“Reconstruction,” devoted to the work of re-education of crippled soldiers, in a recent issue contains the following reference to a collection of verse by Sergeant Mounfield who was a member of the 215th Battalion of this city.

The invalided Soldiers Commission has purchased a number of copies of Sergeant William Mark Mounfield’s ‘Lines of a Lunger,” the small volume of poems by a patient at the Mountain Sanatorium, Hamilton. Comment on the value of Sergeant Mounfield’s rhyme in keeping up “the will to get well” on the part of the patients appeared in the March issue of Reconstruction. The copies which the commission has purchased are being distributed not only among the patients but among those who have already been discharged. Each man is receiving a copy.

“The value of educational work among people having tuberculosis has always been greatly emphasized by medical officers who have made a special study of the disease, and Sergeant Mounfield has included the most important points of the educational program in one place or another in his volume.”