Emmerton, Ernest Onias Hibbert: Service no. 53906

Digitized Service Record

Brother to Major Richard Emmerton.

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Front Row L-R:Ralph Camp, E. Emmerton, Charles Halsall, Charles Rogers Rear Row L-R: Harold Aikenhead, J. Robinson, Jack Herring, Fred Smith Photograph contributed by Dan Moat.

Last Meeting London Branch 18th Battalion 2nd Div 4th Brigade CEF Mob Sept-1914 – May 24, 1919 Home of President Charles Rogers Oct. 10 1975 Front Row L-R Ralph Camp, E. Emmerton, Charles Halsall, Charles Rogers Rear Row L-R Harold Aikenhead, J. Robinson, Jack Herring, Fred Smith Photograph contributed by Dan Moat.

Excerpt from a letter from Edna Nelson (Wife of Major G.W. Nelson) to Edith Kidd dated May 2, 1916:

“Major Emmerton’s brother Sergt. Emmerton was shot in the face and the piece of shrapnel had to be cut out of muscles of his neck. He is in England now and has lost sense of taste and smell completely. Lance Corporal Fleming of Owen Sound a fine big six-footer and really good looking chap had lost one leg. The shell that hit him killed the two men with him in Transport service.”

Lance-Corporal Fleming is most likely Edward Fleming, reg. no. 53240 who was wound April 11, 1916 from a GSW to the right leg and was do die of those wounds and gas gangrene on April 19, 1916.

006802/1918 Ernest Onias Hibbert EMMERTON, 27, farmer, Huron Twp, same, s/o Alfred EMMERTON & Charlotte HIBBERT, married Lorintha LOWRY, 26, farmers dau, Huron Twp, same, d/o Robert LOWRY & Elizabeth ORR, witn: I. Della LOWRY, of Ripley & Charles E WORTHY of Kincardine, 4 Apr 1918 Methodist Parsonage, Bruce Co. [probably Ripley]