Name: Arthur Clayton Truell Rank: Private Service No. 469264/1099776 Service: 64th Battalion; 256th Railway Construction Battalion Date of Birth: February 4, 1898 Place of Birth: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: January 27, 1917 Place of Enlistment: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 18 Height: 5 feet, 4 inches Complexion: Fresh Eye Colour: Blue Hair Colour: Black Occupation: Printer Marital Status: Single Religion: Baptist Next of Kin: Mrs. Laura Truell (Mother) Salem, Yarmouth NS Date of Discharge: January 22, 1919 (Halifax) Age: 20 Date of Death: July 9, 1936 Age: 41 Cemetery: Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Arthur Clayton Truell was the son of Amos N. Truell (1852-1926) and Laura Blanch (McGray) Truell (b.1872- 1948). He was the brother of William Truell (1896-1984), Harold Leslie Truell (b. 1901) and Madeline Ruth Truell (b.1913). He was the husband of Elizabeth Ann (Doucette) Truell (1903-1973) born in Springhaven, Yarmouth Co., NS). Arthur first enlisted on August 27, 1915, in Sussex, New Brunswick. His attestation paper gives his year of birth as 1896 and age as 19 years; however he was actually 17 years of age. He trained with the 64th Battalion: however, he was taken off strength with the 64th Battalion and transferred to a Composite Battalion in Halifax on March 31, 1916. On April 10, 1916 he was listed as Absent Without Leave. Arthur enlisted a second time on January 27, 1917, at Yarmouth, with the 256th Railway Construction Battalion. He embarked from Halifax sailing on the SS Northland on April 18, 1917, and disembarked at Halifax, in England on April 29, 1917. In England he was assigned to Purfleet, in Essex. While there he was hospitalized suffering from an eye ulcer and was transferred to Westcliff Eye Hospital at Folkestone, Kent. He embarked the United Kingdom for service in France on February 16, 1918 and was assigned to the 5th Canadian Railway Troops. On April, 18, 1918, he suffered a knee injury when kicked by a horse, Unable to walk and confined to bed he was returned to England and hospitalized until August 1918. He was assigned to the CRT Deport at Purfleet, in Essex. He embarked for Canada in late December 1919 and was discharged at Halifax on January 22, 1919. Post war, Arthur was employed as a civil engineer. He married Elizabeth Ann Doucette on May 8, 1926, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

Sources: Library and Archives Canada Nova Scotia Archives