A Week of Remembrance, Day 6

Every day from Nov. 1 to Remembrance Day, The Banner is remembering the 49 men named on the Chatsworth Cenotaph, in the order they died. Each entry gives only what the records show: rank, unit, date of death, his tie to our township and where he is buried or commemorated. Where records disagree, we say so. Where a hometown isn't documented, we list it as Unknown.

Day 6 remembers 4 men who died between March 24, 1918 and July 28, 1918.

Lance Corporal Edward Alexander Howey

Lance Corporal Edward Alexander Howey. Photo: Owen Sound Sun, July 1918, via the Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada.

• Service number: 839148
• Unit: Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment) 38th Bn.
• Date of death: March 24, 1918 (killed in action, trenches north-west of Lens)
• Hometown: Chatsworth
• Local tie: CVWM next of kin: "Son of Robert and Margaret Howey, of Chatsworth, Ontario."; Named on the Chatsworth Cenotaph (VAC National Inventory inscription).
• Burial or memorial: Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension (II. D. 13.)
• Note: A July 1918 Owen Sound Sun report says he was a private with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles killed March 21; the Canadian Virtual War Memorial lists him as a lance corporal with the 38th Battalion who died March 24, 1918.
• Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/259005); Chatsworth Legion Branch 464 honour roll; Chatsworth Cenotaph inscription (VAC National Inventory).

Captain James Frederick Matheson

Captain James Frederick Matheson. Photo: Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada.

• Service number: Not recorded (officer)
• Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps
• Date of death: April 19, 1918
• Hometown: Massie
• Local tie: CVWM next of kin: "Son of Duncan and Janet Matheson of Massie, Grey County, Ontario."; Named on the Chatsworth Cenotaph (VAC National Inventory inscription).
• Burial or memorial: St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen (Officers, B.9.7.)
• Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/80000880); Chatsworth Legion Branch 464 honour roll; Chatsworth Cenotaph inscription (VAC National Inventory).

Private Robert Wellington Foster

No verified photograph of Private Robert Wellington Foster has been found. The silhouette stands in for him.

• Service number: 838506
• Unit: 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
• Date of death: April 22, 1918
• Hometown: Unknown
• Local tie: No documented tie to Chatsworth, Holland or Sullivan found beyond his name on the Chatsworth Cenotaph. 147th Bn only (raised in Grey County, enlisted Owen Sound). The address is not in the township. Named on the Chatsworth Cenotaph (VAC National Inventory inscription).
• Burial or memorial: Vimy Memorial
• Note: His name is on the Chatsworth Cenotaph, but The Banner rates his documented tie to the township as unconfirmed.
• Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1568055); Chatsworth Legion Branch 464 honour roll; Chatsworth Cenotaph inscription (VAC National Inventory).

Second Lieutenant John Gershin Galbraith

Second Lieutenant John Gershin Galbraith. Photo: Owen Sound Sun, August 1918, via the Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada.

• Service number: Not recorded (officer)
• Unit: Royal Air Force 13th Sqdn.
• Date of death: July 28, 1918
• Hometown: Chatsworth
• Local tie: CVWM next of kin: "Son of Milton E. and Matilda Galbraith, of Chatsworth, Grey Co., Ontario."; Named on the Chatsworth Cenotaph (VAC National Inventory inscription).
• Burial or memorial: Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension (V. B. 1.)
• Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/52024); Chatsworth Legion Branch 464 honour roll; Chatsworth Cenotaph inscription (VAC National Inventory).

About this series

Records used: the Canadian Virtual War Memorial (Veterans Affairs Canada), the Chatsworth Legion Branch 464 honour roll, and the Veterans Affairs Canada National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials entry for the Chatsworth Cenotaph, with Owen Sound Sun and other newspaper reports where noted. Photographs are from the Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada, where they are posted on the soldier's own record. If you have a verified photograph or family record of any of these men, write to news@chatsworthbanner.ca.