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THOROLD RECEPTION
[People’s Press. 4 March 1919]
Friday of each week has been set aside as Thorold’s reception day to returned soldiers and it is proving a grand success. Last Friday night the public library was packed to the doors when the citizens welcomed home ex-Reeve W.W. Grenville and Lieut. P. Manley of the Royal Flying Corps. Lieut. Manley was forced to descend behind the German lines on his birthday about five weeks after reaching the front, and has been a prisoner in different camps in Germany. Ex-Reeve Grenville enlisted with the 176th Battalion, April 1917. His son Roy enlisted with the 76th Battalion, April 1916, and was accidently wounded while acting as an instructor in bomb throwing. His second daughter, Ina, has been serving as a Red Cross nurse since April, 1915, having seen service in Malta and France, and at present is in hospital at Buxton, England.
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