WWI Victory Medal - Canadian Field Artillery - Thornton He was discharged from the

He was discharged from the CEF in 1919 and passed away in 1921

Ontario in January

New Brunswick when he joined the 140th Battalion (Saint John's Tigers) in Sussex

He was a member of the Canadian Militia (36th Peel Regiment) when he joined the 36th Battalion of the CEF in November

British Columbia

WWI Victory Medal - Canadian Field Artillery - Thornton He was discharged from theWWI Victory Medal named to: 304080 GNR. J. E. THORNTON. C. F. A. John Elton Thornton was born in Sheffield, Lennox County, Ontario and lived in Tamworth when he joined the 33rd Battery CFA at Kingston in December, 1915. He served on the Western Front with the CFA but was diagnosed with delusional insanity, catatonic dementia and invalided back to Canada for further medical treatment. He passed away in June 1947 and is buried in Woodland Cemetery,