192261 John Gill Leuty attested with the 92nd Battalion, 48th Highlanders (a reinforcement battalion) on 10 August 1915. He arrived in England on 29 May 1916 and was transferred to the 42nd Battalion arriving in the field on 04 September 1916, just after the battle of The Somme which began on 01 September. He reported to the Field Ambulance on 5 December suffering from myalgia and was discharged back to the unit on 29 December. He was buried by the explosion of HE shells near Vimy Ridge on 01 January 1917 (Note: main Vimy Ridge battle was April 1917) and spent six months in various hospitals being finally discharged from hospital on 8 June 1916. With the return of myalgia he was sent to Bramshott in England in October for both hospital and local duty. He sailed to Canada on 23 December 1917 and was assigned to No. 3 Special Service Co on 10 January 1918. He was discharged from the army on 14 March 1919, being declared medically unfit.

During his service he was promoted from Private to Corporal on 22 June 1918; to Sgt on 8 June and CSM (Provisional) on 1 August.

NOK: Mrs. Wilhelmina Leuty, Wife, Port Hope, Ontario

CSM Leuty’s two sons also served. Henry Leuty with the Hussars in WWI and Lt Col John Gordon Leuty as the last commanding officer of the Midland Regiment until it was disbanded to be part of the Hasting and Prince Edward Regiment.