264340 L/Cpl. Henry Middleton Lott Canadian Army 2nd Battalion from:Tamworth, Ontario Henry Lott was the youngest of four sons of William Abraham Lott and Elizabeth Anne York to enlist for WW1.
He was born in Tamworth, Ontario 3rd Nov 1886.
Henry enlisted in the 2nd Battalion C.E.F. at Valcartier, Quebec on 22nd of September 1914.
Training at Valcartier ended on 27th of September, when the troops took trains to the port in Quebec City. From here they sailed to Gaspé, where they were met by an escort of British warships. Henry and his comrades boarded the S.S. Cassandra.
During World War I, the Cassandra served as a troop ship. She was part of the first Canadian troop convoy, carrying 1,199 officers and men of the 2nd Battalion (1st Brigade) and some No.2 Field Ambulance personnel, along with a cargo including rifles, ammunition, saddlery, grain and flour.
The convoy set out on 3rd of October 1914 and arrived in Plymouth on 14th October (having been diverted from the planned destination of Southampton due to sightings of German U-boats in the English Channel), and the Cassandra completed unloading on 25th of October 1914.
Private Lott was promoted to Lance Corporal on 15th of December 1914.
Henry suffered a severe wound to his left upper arm, (fractured humerus) at the Somme on 9th of September 1916 and was sent to No. 4 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station for 1 week, there, two operations were performed.
Then on to Boulogne, France for 1 day before being sent to the 2nd Western General Hospital in Manchester, England were he remained for 16 weeks.
He was then sent to the Canadian Convalescent Hospital at Woodcote Park, Epsom for 7 weeks.
Unfit for duty, Henry was sent to Liverpool where he sailed to Canada on board the H.M. Hospital Ship Essequibo on 22nd of March 1917 arriving in Halifax on the 31st.
He left Quebec 7th of Apr arriving in Kingston the next day where he was admitted to the Elmhurst Convalescent Home for 3 months.
Lance Corporal Lott was discharged 5th of Feb 1918 medically unfit for war service.
He married Frances Agnes Lacroix of Bogart, Hastings County, Ontario, in 1922 in Tamworth. They had 9 children, 5 boys and 4 girls. Some of the boys were in the Canadian Air Force during WWll.
Henry died in March 1945 in Tamworth and is buried in the Tamworth United Church Cemetery.
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