The
Ontario Genealogy Society issued its journal Families for November, and
here are the papers included in Part I this issue. Part II will continue tomorrow.
With
2014 being the 100th anniversary of the First World War, the papers
about the people who fought in that war are starting to come into Families to be published.
The
two papers are
Hart Leech: “A
dog-gone good soldier … doing hid blooming job” by Catherine
Whiteley tells the story of Hart Leech from Winnipeg, who, like so many others,
went off to war as a young man, and like so many others died because of the war.
But
while he was fighting in the war, he earned the praise of his superiors, and
when he died helping his fellow soldiers, he was given a burial in the Oville British
Cemetery in France.
His
mother received the Memorial Cross.
The
keywords in the paper is Leech.
The
ship on the front cover of Families
and is the SS Olympic. It is shown in Halifax as it disembarked
Canadian soldiers coming back from the First World War.
Blacks in the
Great War by
Jerry Hind is a paper which recounts
the role that Blacks played in the First World War.
The
men from the Chatham-Kent area who entered the 1st Contingent of the
Canadian Expeditionary Force and the discrimination that they faced.
To
go with the Families paper, there is
a website called
Gathering our
Heroes at
http://www.gatheringourheroes.ca/ at which there
are bios of many of the Blacks who were in the No. 2 Construction Battalion.
The
keywords are Jones, Hosey, Lucas, and Mills.
Postscrpt:
December is the yearly membership drive
by the OGS. This year the basic membership is $61.20 which is a deal for all
the benefits that you can receive from the Members Only pages at http://www.ogs.on.ca/index.php
