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Aug 7, 1898
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Born in Havelock, Ontario
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Oct 14, 1916
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Attested into the 247th Battalion CEF
in Peterborough, Ontario
Ø Number 1063016
Ø Next of kin given as Mrs. Sarah
Jane Weese, mother, Havelock, Ontario
Ø Previous occupation given as
Student
Ø No previous military
experience given
Ø Religion given as Presbyterian
The battalion trained in the Peterborough area
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Mar 20, 1917
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Transferred to the 2nd Battalion
Reinforcing Draft training in Kingston, Ontario
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Mar 26, 1917
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The 2nd Battalion Reinforcing Draft
embarked the SS Saxonia in Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Apr 7, 1917
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Disembarked in Liverpool, England and proceeded
to Seaford where the draft was absorbed into the 6th Reserve
Battalion to continue training
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Jun 19, 1917
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Transferred to the 21st Battalion
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Jun 20, 1917
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Arrived at the No. 2 CIBD (Canadian Infantry Base
Depot) in Etaples, France and TOS (Taken On Strength) the 21st Battalion
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Jul 8, 1917
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After leaving the base depot Private Weese joined
the 2nd Canadian Entrenching Battalion in Hersin, France as part
of a draft of 53 reinforcements destined to join the 21st
Battalion
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Aug 21, 1917
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After leaving the entrenching battalion he joined
the 21st Battalion in billets in Villers au Bois, France
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Nov 9, 1917
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The 21st Battalion had moved into the
Passchendaele front the previous week and on this date a work party of 200
men was sent out to improve the trenches on the front line. An artillery shell landed in the midst of
the men and a large number were killed and wounded. Private Thomas Garfield Weese was one of
those killed. His body was not recovered
for several days, but when found was buried in a field north of Zonnebeke,
Belgium. When the war ended, his
identifiable remains could not be located and his name is now recorded on the
walls of the Menin Gate in Ypres for those killed during the war in Belgium
and have no known grave.
Following the war, the British War Medal, Victory
Medal, Plaque (Dead Man’s Penny), Scroll and Memorial Cross were sent to his
mother, Mrs. Sarah Jane Weese, Havelock, Ontario
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Thomas Weese is
also honoured on the Havelock, Ontario War Memorial
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