A white index card containing name, rank and military history of a soldier of Waterloo County. Card also includes a photograph, a red cross and a red slash.
Kitchener Public Library - Soldier Information Card Collection - World War One
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A white index card containing name, rank and military history of a soldier of Waterloo County. Card also includes a photograph, a red cross and a red slash.
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Kitchener Public Library
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Soldier Information Cards - World War One
Transcription
Lockhart, Thomas Downey
Captain.
Enlisted in the early days of the war with the 29th Highland Light Infantry Battalion of Galt.
He was thirty-five years old when he enlisted.
Presbyterian.
Born in Scotland, he came to Canada as a lad. He resided first in Toronto but came to Galt as a member of the firm of Norris and Lockhart, plumbers, but later became the head of the firm of T? Lockhart & Co.
A prominent bowler and curler and a member of the Masonic Order.
He was killed in the Battle of Langemarck, Friday, April 23, 1915 while leading his platoon in a charge against the enemy. He received a fatal wound, succumbing half an hour later.