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Franklin Freid Thamer

Male 1894 - 1976  (82 years)


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  • Name Franklin Freid Thamer 
    Born 27 Aug 1894  New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Business 96 King St. E., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    E. H. Thamer & Son men's furnishings shop 
    Residence 1911  New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    United Brethren 
    Military 1914  WW1 Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    WW1, Private, 34th Battalion 
    Military 1914  WW1 Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    WW1, Service #603175 
    Name Frank Thamer 
    Residence Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Residence New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Residence 20 Alma St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-75671 
    Died 16 Nov 1976  Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Mount Pleasant Burial Park, Swift Current, Saskatchewan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I75671  Generations
    Last Modified 12 May 2025 

    Father Ezra Thamer,   b. 14 Aug 1866, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. May 1957, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years) 
    Mother Lucinda Fried,   b. 5 Apr 1865, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1940  (Age 74 years) 
    Married 1 Jan 1889  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Family ID F6452  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Selling the store in 1911, Ezra, Lucinda and several of the children moved to 20 Alma St. in Berlin (Charles Street East in 2018, site of the Crowne Plaza parking garage). Less than a block away, Ezra and second son Franklin opened E.H. Thamer & Son men's furnishings shop at 96 King East at Scott (2018's Waterloo Region Record office site). Third son Owen had been born in 1896, and when the opening salvoes of the First World War were fired, he was 18 and a half. The Thamer brothers, like most Canadian men in their teens/early 20s, inexorably became part of the First World War.

      Franklin joined the 34th Overseas Battalion in Guelph and was in France by October 1915, among the earliest Berlin men to reach the battlefield. A letter Franklin sent from hospital in April 1917 said he was suffering from "shell-shock and concussion of the ears." However, Sapper F.F. Thamer returned to active service, escaped further serious injury and was part of the Canadian Army of Occupation in Germany following the November 1918 Armistice. He sent several souvenirs back home and Ezra proudly displayed helmets, badges and photos in the family's store window. Franklin returned to Kitchener in mid June 1919. For a couple of years, he remained with his father's business but then left town.

      mills, r. (2018). Flash from the Past: RFC flyer in training visits hometown 'by mistake'. KitchenerPost.ca. Retrieved 7 September 2018, from https://www.kitchenerpost.ca/news-story/8881658-flash-from-the-past-rfc-flyer-in-training-visits-hometown-by-mistake-/

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      THAMER, Franklin F. - At Toronto, on Tuesday, November 16, 1976.

      Dearly loved husband of Jane Adams Smith; dear father of F. David Thamer of Ottawa; grandfather of Caroline and Jennifer; brother of Mabel (Mrs. M. Hallman) and Violet of Kitchener and Orville Thamer of Cloyne, Ont. and the late Owen and Roland Thamer and Emile Tweed.

      Service from St. Cuthbert's Anglican Church, Toronto, this afternoon at 2: 30 p.m. Interment Mount Pleasant cemetery.

      Kitchener-Waterloo Record 18 Nov 1976 pg 33

  • Sources 
    1. [S133] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1901, Wilmot H-2 Page 5.

    2. [S346] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1911, Div. 12 Page 6.

    3. [S157] Military - Canada - World War I - Attestation papers.

    4. [S2231] Military - Kitchener Public Library - Soldier Information Card Collection - World War One.

    5. [S1338] News - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Galt Reporter (1846-1973), marriage notice of Ezra Thamer & Lucinda Fried - Jan 11 1889 pg 8.

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 27 Aug 1894 - New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - United Brethren - 1911 - New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - - New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 16 Nov 1976 - Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Mount Pleasant Burial Park, Swift Current, Saskatchewan Link to Google Earth
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