REMEMBRANCE DAY 2017: Arthur Lennox was prisoner of war
Arthur Lennox was born in Arthur Township on Jan. 9, 1884. He enlisted in the 153rd (Wellington) Battalion, 30th Regiment, on Dec. 18, 1915, at Arthur.
On Jan. 1, 1916, he was promoted to sergeant.
Lennox did basic training in Arthur, London and St. Thomas. He embarked for England, along with many other local men, on SS Olympic, sister ship of Titanic, on April 29th, 1917.
Sergeant Lennox did further training while in England and, after reverting to Private for a second time, deployed to France in September 1918. Soon he was reported missing, believed to be a prisoner of war.
As a result, Arthur Lennox spent the last months of the war in Germany. At war’s end, he was repatriated to the Hammersmith Hospital in Fulham, England.
Arthur Cornelius Lennox returned home on SS Lapland, arriving in Halifax on April 10, 1919. He was discharged in Toronto on April 14. He returned to farming and was Reeve of Arthur Township in 1949. Some years after he returned home, like other prisoners of war, Arthur received a hand-written letter from King George V.
This story is published in the Arthur and Area World War One and Two Veterans’ Book.
