Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When Private Arthur Carter Humphreys was born on 26 May 1891, in West Ham, Essex, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Samuel Humphreys, was 43 and his mother, Susan Catherine Redrup, was 37. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Louise A Newman. He lived in Stratford St John, Essex, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as labourer. He died on 30 September 1931, in St. Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 40, and was buried in South Park Cemetery, Lyndale, Elgin, Ontario, Canada.
Private Arthur Carter Humphreys, reg. no. 53691.
This man enlisted with the 18th Battalion CEF on 29 October 1914, and was a single labourer practicing the Anglican faith. He enlisted at St. Thomas. He was assigned to “C” Company.
He went overseas with the 18th Battalion and arrived at Avonmouth on 29 April 1915, and he went “overseas” with the 18th on 15 September 1915.
During his training in England, he was Absent Without Leave three times, and he appears to have been married sometime between May and September 1915 to Louise A. Newman.
He was attached to No. 2 Canadian Sanitary Section from 23 September 1915 to 21 August 1916.
He was granted a 10-day leave effective 22 December 1916.
Returning from leave, he served until he was wounded on 17 January 1917. He was wounded with a contusion (slight) to his testicles and required treatment from the date of wounding until he returned to duty on 2 February 1917.
On 30 September 1917, he was attached to the 2nd Canadian Divisional Baths. During that duty, he was partially asphyxiated by gas fumes and required treatment at the New Zealand Stationary Hospital on 24 October 1917, and he was discharged the next day.
He was detached from this duty on 5 February 1918 and was then employed as a Mess Waiter with the 2nd Canadian Divisional Headquarters Staff, effective 16 February 1918.
He finished his war service with this posting and proceeded to England on 22 March 1919 and returned to Canada 23 June 1919.
He was discharged due to demobilization on 4 July 1919, at Quebec City. His trade on this document indicated he was a fur cutter. He planned to return to St. Thomas.
ARTHUR HUMPHREYS WAS A WAR VETERAN
Original Member of 18th; Twice Wounded, Twice Gassed.
Death came Wednesday afternoon at his home, 65 Manitoba street, to Arthur C. Humphreys, Wabash brakeman, and a veteran of the World War. Mr. Humphreys, who was born in London, England, over forty years ago, was one of the first men to enlist from St. Thomas, going overseas on October 29 with the 18th Battalion. He was twice wounded and twice gassed, and for the last fourteen months had been quite ill. He leaves to mourn, his wife, Louise; one daughter, Agnes Isabel; one son, Albert Edward; his mother, three brothers and two sisters in England. He was a member of Grace United church, and of the B. of R. T.
The funeral will take place Friday at 2.30 from his late residence. Interment will be in the soldiers’ plot, South Park cemetery. Rev. J. N. Gould and the B. of R. T. will officiate.
Thomas Times Journal 1 October 1930 Page 9.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 