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The following 114 served with the
85th Battalion with connections
to Yarmouth Town and County
based upon the Wartime Heritage
research to March 2018.
25 of the 114 with connections
to Yarmouth Town and County died
in service between 1914 and 1915
Adams, Charles Franklin
Adams, Clarence Wilber
Allen, George Sheldon
Allen, Trueman Moore
Amiro, Louis Ross
Ashe, Wilfred Laurier
Bain, Robert Edison
Baker, George Charles
Baker, Karl Wyman
Blauvelt, Aaron
Brackett, Kenneth Bradford
Bullerwell, Frank William
Burke, Emilien
Cain, Irvin Samuel
Cann, Gilbert Franklin
Cann, Llyod Ellery
Cann, William Moses
Chipman, Nathan Lewis
Churchill, Nathan L
Churchill, Albert Clayton
Churchill, Chester King
Clements, Elkanah Ernest
Clements, Nathan St Clair
Clements, Simon
Cook, George Stanley
Crosby, Charles Augustus
Crosby, Thomas Carleson
Crowell, Harvey Edwin
Crowell, Johnathan
Curry, Emerson Ladd
D'Entremont, Melbourne
D'Eon, Luxime Elie
Dexter, James Wilbur
Doane, James Freeman
Doucette, Joseph Clifford
Doucette, Simon
Earl, Clifford H.
Eldridge, Henry Eugene
Eldridge, James Harvey
Gaudet, Rene Paul
Gaudet, Timothy Israel
Gavel, Gilman Bond
Gavel, Roy Ferguson
Goodwin, Sidney Harold
Gray, Colin Crawford
Hamilton, Clifford William
Hamilton, Percy Morton
Hatfield, Lent Peter
Haycock, Carleton Augustus
Hessie, Frank Arthur
Hilton, Austin
Hilton, Charles Ivan
Hilton, Ross Laverne
Hines, Lester Grant
Holden, Ephraim Havelock
Horner, Albinus William
Hubbard, Peter John
Jeffery, Albert Lawson
Jeffery, George Maynard
Jeffery, Joseph Bunker
Killam, Boyce Scott
Killam, Clare Vernon
Killam, Everett Delmar
Killam, Scott Boyce
Langille, Carmen Lomert
Larkin, Ralph Walter
Lauder, Robert Enwright
Lavan, Wilfred Joseph
LeBlanc, Charles Morel
Lennox, Leslie Ashton
Lovitt, Garnet Lincoln Chase
Mack, Robert Thornton
Mallett, James William
Moses, George Melbourne
Moses, William Stanley
Muise, George Percy
Muise, Harry
Muise, Louis
Murphy, Milton
Nichols, Ansel Hamilton
Nickerson, Alvin Rupert
Nickerson, Aubrey Eugene
Nickerson, Osmond Rupert
Nickerson, Randall Sinclair
Owen, Percy Dor
Parker, Leslie William
Parker, Percy St. John
Pierce, Douglas Coy
Pitman, Hugh Campbell
Poole, Charles Edgar
Porter, Herman Leslie
Porter, John Leslie
Powers, Henry William
Price, John James
Prouty, George
Roberts, Arnold Ross
Roberts, Elgin Clifford
Robinson, Gordon Keith
Sabean, Leslie Willis
Saulnier, Irwin Clarence
Smith, Jerrod Leroy
Stingel, George Ronald
Studley, Enoch Saunders
Surette, Peter
Sweeney, George Clifford
Sweeney, Percy Sinclair
Treffry, Hallett Archibald
Uhlman, James Cornelius
Uhlman, William Thomas Grierson
Walsh, David Joseph
Wheaton, Jack Merritt
Whitman, George Robert
Whitman, William Healey
Woollard, Edwin
Wyman, Maynard Brown
85th Battalion Nova Scotia Highlanders - World War I
Yarmouth Connections
The 85th Battalion was authorized on 14 September 1915 and embarked
for Great Britain on October 12, 1916. The troops disembarked in France on
February 10, 1917. The Battalion fought as part of the 12th Infantry Brigade,
4th Canadian Division, in France and Flanders until the end of the war.
85th Battalion on their way up the line. (July 1917)
85th Battalion on their way up the line. (August 1917)
Sir Douglas Haig congratulating 85th Battalion. Battle of Amiens. (August 1918)
Battle Honours The 85th Battalion
Arras, 1917, 1918
Vimy, 1917
Ypres, 1917
Passchendaele
Scarpe, 1918
Amiens
Drocourt-Quéant
Hindenburg Line
Canal du Nord
Valenciennes
Sambre
France and Flanders, 1917-1918
Trueman Allen
Nathan Lewis Chipman
Edwin Woollard
George Robert Whitman
William Stanley Moses
Scott Boyce Killam (1912)
Austin Hilton
Clifford William Hamilton
Gilman Bond Gavel
Simon Doucette
James Freeman Doane
Luxime Elie D'Eon
Emilien Burke