LOMAX, Gladys
Age at Death: 37
Rank Private
Unit Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Service Number W2285
Place of Burial Woodland, Hamilton ON
Date of Birth 1906.04.06
Place of Birth Berkshire, UK
Enlistment March 11, 1942, Toronto, ON
Date of Death 1943.06.15
Daughter of Annie Hiscock, of Hamilton
Born in England but raised in Toronto, Gladys had a brother and a half-brother who were also in the service. Leaving school at 14, she worked various jobs including at a meat packing plant and a printing press feeder in the years before her enlistment.
Her evaluation described her bluntly: “Doesn’t look very robust”—and indeed, she had been diagnosed with influenzal bronchitis pharyngitis shortly before enlistment, but was considered recovered. Her health took another downward turn during her service, and she was discharged as medically unfit in November 1942, after eight months of service. The following June, she died of tuberculosis. In 1950, her medals were mailed to her brother, as her mother had died three years previously.
