Burial 1988 London, Ontario, possible British Home Child?

[Nova67]

I just received the death notice. No information on family or background.  Not an obituary as such. Died in a Veteran’s Hospital, so he would have served in the military I assume to be a patient there?

After midnight here.

[dbree]

Hi,

Oh good, LPL outstanding......not so good that there wasn't much information.

It seems Worthy maintained a low profile. There is that one possible on the 1935 Voters List in
Parkdale.

There are Toronto directories which include Parkdale, but I couldn't spot him.
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/history-genealogy/lh-digital-city-directories.jsp

There are London directories but not for that time frame.

DB

[dbree]

Hi,

Perhaps you have already have this,

From the British Home Children in Canada Fegan Home, there is a group photo which includes
Worthy. Scroll down to "Hiving Off Party April 1923"  In the text below the photo, his name is the
5th line down.
http://canadianbritishhomechildren.weebly.com/fegans.html

DB

[Nova67]

Yes, I do not think you would get that promptness here in Australia! Thank you LPL!!!
The death notice is very perfunctory, so I imagine there is no family.
There is no way of finding out if he served in WW2 - which I am assuming he did now. Are the soldiers indexed anywhere? I did look at your national archives.
Yes, I previously found Worthy LLane in 1935 - they seem to have Welshified his name!
Have also discovered one of his sister's who was in the same orphanage  emigrated to South Africa with her family.

[Nova67]

Yes, I have seen the photo. I am thinking he might be the middle one back row. His name appears down the bottom of the photo W Lane (appears to be the fourth last name). Had to enlarge it on my screen.

[dbree]

There is no way of finding out if he served in WW2 - which I am assuming he did now. Are the soldiers indexed anywhere? I did look at your national archives.

Canada has very strict privacy laws, so unfortunately WW2 service records etc. would not available.

DB

[Nova67]

That is what I assumed. Thank you. I will take a look at the directories link. I guess unless he made the newspapers for some other reason, not much more to go on.