A Week of Remembrance, Day 8

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 8 remembers 4 men who died between August 17, 1918 and August 27, 1918.

Second Lieutenant George Bertram Scott

No verified photograph of Second Lieutenant George Bertram Scott has been found. The silhouette stands in for him.

• Service number: Not recorded (officer)
• Unit: Royal Air Force, No. 28 Training Depot Station
• Date of death: August 17, 1918
• Hometown: Unknown
• Local tie: No documented tie to Chatsworth, Holland or Sullivan found beyond his name on the Chatsworth Cenotaph. The Legion 464 honour roll lists him as "Son of John A. & Margaret Scott" and says he enlisted in Toronto; named on the Chatsworth Cenotaph (VAC National Inventory inscription).
• Burial or memorial: Oxford (Botley) Cemetery (I1. 116.)
• 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/393093); Chatsworth Legion Branch 464 honour roll; Chatsworth Cenotaph inscription (VAC National Inventory).

Private Clarence Clifford Deleree Proud

Private Clarence Clifford Deleree Proud. Photo: Owen Sound Sun, September 1918, via the Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada.

• Service number: 1066032
• Unit: 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
• Date of death: August 25, 1918 (died of wounds)
• Hometown: Walters Falls
• Local tie: Canadian Virtual War Memorial next of kin: "Son of Thomas George and Lucy May Proud, of Walters Falls, Ontario"; named on the Chatsworth Cenotaph (VAC National Inventory inscription).
• Burial or memorial: Ligny-St. Flochel British Cemetery (II. C. 18.)
• Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/468175); Chatsworth Legion Branch 464 honour roll; Chatsworth Cenotaph inscription (VAC National Inventory).

Private Melville Stewart Nicholson

Private Melville Stewart Nicholson. Photo: Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada.

• Service number: 1066265
• Unit: 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
• Date of death: August 26, 1918 (died of wounds from gas)
• Hometown: Chatsworth
• Local tie: A September 1918 Owen Sound Sun clipping posted on his Canadian Virtual War Memorial record calls him a "Chatsworth Young Man," names his parents as "Mr. and Mrs. C. Nicholson of Chatsworth" and says the family "resided in Chatsworth since April, having formerly resided on a farm in Sullivan"; named on the Chatsworth Cenotaph (VAC National Inventory inscription).
• Burial or memorial: Ligny-St. Flochel British Cemetery (II. C. 16.)
• Note: His name is on the Chatsworth Cenotaph, but The Banner rates his documented tie to the township as likely rather than confirmed.
• Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/468142); Chatsworth Legion Branch 464 honour roll; Chatsworth Cenotaph inscription (VAC National Inventory).

Private Henry Cecil Sparrow

No verified photograph of Private Henry Cecil Sparrow has been found. The silhouette stands in for him.

• Service number: 1066069
• Unit: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment) 58th Bn.
• Date of death: August 27, 1918
• Hometown: Bognor
• Local tie: The Legion 464 honour roll lists him as "Son of Mrs. Deborah Sparrow Bognor, Ontario"; 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 likely rather than confirmed.
• Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1576022); 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.