Police Constable Samuel James Caulfield

Samuel James Caulfield, Police Constable #142 of No. 10 Police Station (in the Main St and Gerrard St E area) was a single young man who lived at 62 Greenwood Avenue.

Constable Caulfield enlisted in Toronto's 169^th Battalion (109^th Regiment), CEF, on January 24^th 1916. In October 1916 he sailed on the SS Metagama to England, where his unit was broken up for reinforcements and he was transferred to the 116^th Battalion (Ontario County), CEF. Being an experienced former soldier of the Royal Canadian Regiment, he was promoted several times. Caulfield arrived in France in February 1917, and proceeded to the front. On a quiet, warm and sunny Sunday, June 24^th 1917, Caulfield was struck in the neck by a bullet or shrapnel and hospitalized until he rejoined his unit that August. On the night of Thursday, December 20^th 1917, Caulfield was a member of an advance party from his battalion beginning the relief of a section in the trench line near Lens, France. As the last man in his party moving through a communication trench towards the front line, an enemy shell exploded to Caulfield's rear and he was struck by shrapnel. He was evacuated to a casualty clearing station, but succumbed to his wounds.

Constable Samuel James Caulfield is buried at the Noeux-les-Mines Communal Cemetery in France.