A Week of Remembrance, Day 9

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 9 remembers 4 men who died between August 28, 1918 and November 17, 1918.

Captain John Milton Dobie

No verified photograph of Captain John Milton Dobie has been found. The silhouette stands in for him.

• Service number: Not recorded (officer)
• Unit: 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
• Date of death: August 28, 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 Joseph & Alice Dobie" and says he enlisted in Owen Sound; named on the Chatsworth Cenotaph (VAC National Inventory inscription).
• Burial or memorial: Vis-En-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt (VI. G. 24.)
• 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/250131); Chatsworth Legion Branch 464 honour roll; Chatsworth Cenotaph inscription (VAC National Inventory).

Private Percy Evans

No verified photograph of Private Percy Evans has been found. The silhouette stands in for him.

• Service number: 407083
• Unit: Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment) 1st Bn.
• Date of death: September 3, 1918 (died of wounds)
• Hometown: Massie
• Local tie: November 1918 Owen Sound Sun Times clippings posted on his Canadian Virtual War Memorial record call him "a young man from Massie" and say he "was well known around Massie," a community in present-day Chatsworth Township. His Canadian Virtual War Memorial record gives his next of kin in Cardiff, Wales, and his attestation paper gives no Massie address; named on the Chatsworth Cenotaph (VAC National Inventory inscription).
• Burial or memorial: Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension (IV. E. 69.)
• Note: A 1918 Owen Sound Sun Times clipping gives his death as Sept. 5 and a second clipping as Sept. 3; the clipping says he went over with the 147th Battalion, but his service number (407083) is not in the 147th block and his attestation paper shows he enlisted with the 36th Battalion in June 1915. His Massie tie rests on the newspaper only.
• Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/566982); Chatsworth Legion Branch 464 honour roll; Chatsworth Cenotaph inscription (VAC National Inventory).

Corporal Norton Mcdonald Fraser

No verified photograph of Corporal Norton Mcdonald Fraser has been found. The silhouette stands in for him.

• Service number: 642309
• Unit: Canadian Machine Gun Corps 3rd Bn.
• Date of death: September 24, 1918
• Hometown: Unknown
• Local tie: Brother of Private D. Clayton Fraser (remembered on Day 3); both were sons of David and Ida Alice Fraser, whom the Legion 464 honour roll lists as of Chatsworth and the Canadian Virtual War Memorial lists as of Toronto. No record on file ties Norton himself to the township; named on the Chatsworth Cenotaph (VAC National Inventory inscription).
• Burial or memorial: Wanquetin Communal Cemetery Extension (II. E. 14.)
• 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/80177); Chatsworth Legion Branch 464 honour roll; Chatsworth Cenotaph inscription (VAC National Inventory).

Private Charles Murray McClure

Private Charles Murray McClure. Photo: Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada.

• Service number: 838982
• Unit: 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
• Date of death: November 17, 1918 (died of illness, broncho-pneumonia)
• Hometown: Williamsford
• Local tie: Canadian Virtual War Memorial next of kin: "Son of Alexander and Jeannette McClure, of Williamsford, Ontario"; named on the Chatsworth Cenotaph (VAC National Inventory inscription).
• Burial or memorial: Etaples Military Cemetery (L. D. 9.)
• Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/497451); 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.