Comments for W.C. "Bill" Kelsey Memorial Blog

Comment on Unsorted Images by CHRIS BRENNAND

CHRIS BRENNAND — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:49:06 +0000

Hi Tim, we have met at anahiem show(we had the colorado 1937 layout)I was just wondering what colors was your grandfathers service truck? Tim do you sell those paint jigs for trucks and how much( I could use one of those).
Kind Regards,
Chris B

Comment on Gun Carrier by Brian Martin

Brian Martin — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:23:19 +0000

I believe this is the amunition limber for a 25 pounder field gun. It was towed by a Quad Tractor (4 whl drive truck with seating for the gun crew) & the gun was connected to the rear of the limber. This picture shows the limber wheels before they were installed. The ammuntion was accessed from the rear face (right hand end of picture.

Comment on About This Blog by Ron Warris

Ron Warris — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:48:28 +0000

Interesting… Although I am not surprised.

My grandfather was not one to use the correct name for anything. For example, while growing up with him he often called that green pot scrubbing sponge stuff “emery cloth”. He did that because we used it to clean copper pipe prior to soldering. (Does a great job by the way.)

It was not until I was in high school shop class that I discovered what emery cloth really was after arguing with the instructor for several minutes that the stuff he was using was not emery cloth at all but ‘metal sandpaper’, which is what my grandfather called emery cloth.

Took me (and my brothers) many years to learn the correct names for a lot of the tools that we learned to use with my grandfather. My brothers and I still call some tools by the name we learned from my grandfather — which to our amusement confuses the heck out of people we work with. One thing for sure, my grandfather’s unique nomenclature for tools did not prevent him from knowing how to use them!

I will correct the ‘gun carrier’ post to explain what this really was. Thanks for the post and letting me know! It is great to finally know what this really was and the small but important role it played in World War II.

Comment on About This Blog by Don Hyndman

Don Hyndman — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:03:31 +0000

I believe the photo you have of a “gun
carrier” is in fact a “limber”. It was hauled between the field artillery tractor (FAT) and the field gun, the famous 25 pounder. It was used primarialy to carry ammunition so the gun could go into action quickly without waiting for an ammunition delivery.

Comment on Family Portrait by Garry Kelsey

Garry Kelsey — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:12:01 +0000

Hi Ron:
I was told about your site by uncle Willard’s son Bill. Bill was down to my place for a visit last fall. We met for the first time and had a great time for two or three weeks. I was in the middle of a construction job at home so we were not able to go to many Kelsey homes but did manage to visit with Lorna Warren, and Bill met up with a friend from his childhood in Smiths Falls.

I only met uncle Willard a couple of times in his lifetime but this site sure tells me a lot about who he was.
Great job.

Comment on Deltasia Park Video by Ron Warris

Ron Warris — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:41:53 +0000

I just finished watching the first video. It’s impressive that you can see something that was done so many years ago. It certainly brought back memories of Deltasia Park in it’s early stages. Hope to see more of these in the future.
Daughter of W.C. Kelsey

Comment on Who Was W.C. Kelsey? by Garry Kelsey

Garry Kelsey — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:26:52 +0000

Hi Ron:
I was talking on the phone to Bill Kelsey, Willard’s son, this afternoon and he mentioned that you have this site. I think this is a great tribute to uncle Willard. My father was Stanley, a brother to Willard. Bill was down at our place for a visit this fall and that was the first time I had met Bill. I did meet uncle Willard a few times over the years, but I was never in Delhi while he lived there. The last time I saw him was at the family reunion in Lansdowne, Ontario in about 1990 or so.
I hope we can get to know each other through this site.
Garry

Comment on Family Portrait by Peter l. Kelsey

Peter l. Kelsey — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:31:44 +0000

Hello, I was just browsing through and found your web site very interesting, as you can see my name is Kelsey we hail from Newfoundland, but my grandfather came over from England after the first world war and stayed, not many Kelseys around this way and it’s nice to see other family names as ours, great site take care and all the best.

peter kelsey