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Harry Ashton Munn Veteran

Birth
England
Death
8 Oct 1945 (aged 66)
Ingersoll, Oxford County Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Burial
Beachville, Oxford County Municipality, Ontario, Canada Add to Map
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Son of Edwin Munn and Eliza Donst

HARRY A. MUNN PASSES SUDDENLY
The death occurred suddenly on Monday noon, of an esteemed resident of Ingersoll, in the person of Harry A. Munn, at the family residence, Oxford Lane. Born in England, Mr. Munn was in his 67th year and came to Canada in 1911 residing in Woodstock. He enlisted in the Canadian Army at the outbreak of hostilities with Germany in 1914, as a member of the First Battalion. He saw service in France, receiving wounds that necessitated the amputation of one lower limb. He has resided in Ingersoll for the past 24 years. Left to mourn the passing are his widow and two sisters in Chatham, England. The funeral was held from the Fred S. Newman Funeral Home on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and was largely attended. The many floral tributes testified to the esteem in which he was held by a wide circle of friends. Rev. H. E. Merifield conducted the services and a firing party from the Oxford Rifles with their bugler gave the military honours at the grave. Interment took place at Beachville Cemetery and the pallbearers were Lieut. Norman Smith, CSM; Paul Bowman, Sergt. Voight, Sergt. Sam Smith, Cpl. James Westcott and Cpl. Wallace Clayton, all members of 'D' Company, Oxford Rifles.
Son of Edwin Munn and Eliza Donst

HARRY A. MUNN PASSES SUDDENLY
The death occurred suddenly on Monday noon, of an esteemed resident of Ingersoll, in the person of Harry A. Munn, at the family residence, Oxford Lane. Born in England, Mr. Munn was in his 67th year and came to Canada in 1911 residing in Woodstock. He enlisted in the Canadian Army at the outbreak of hostilities with Germany in 1914, as a member of the First Battalion. He saw service in France, receiving wounds that necessitated the amputation of one lower limb. He has resided in Ingersoll for the past 24 years. Left to mourn the passing are his widow and two sisters in Chatham, England. The funeral was held from the Fred S. Newman Funeral Home on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and was largely attended. The many floral tributes testified to the esteem in which he was held by a wide circle of friends. Rev. H. E. Merifield conducted the services and a firing party from the Oxford Rifles with their bugler gave the military honours at the grave. Interment took place at Beachville Cemetery and the pallbearers were Lieut. Norman Smith, CSM; Paul Bowman, Sergt. Voight, Sergt. Sam Smith, Cpl. James Westcott and Cpl. Wallace Clayton, all members of 'D' Company, Oxford Rifles.

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