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Leander Clements
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Leander Clements (Clairmont)
4050448
Private
85th Battalion
March 25, 1895
Pinkneys Point, NS
April 4, 1918
1st Depot Battalion, NS
Halifax, NS
Pinkneys Point, NS
23
5 feet, 8 inches
Medium
Brown
Black
Single
Fireman
Roman Catholic
Virgine Mary Clements (Clairmont) Pinkneys Point, NS
England, France
June 15, 1919 (Halifax) (Demobilization)
Leander Clairmont was the son of Marc Clairmont and Virgine Mary Clements (Clairmont) (1855-1932) of
Pinkneys Point, NS. His brothers, Pierre Archange Clairmont (Peter Clements), died of pneumonia at the
Cogswell Military Hospital, Halifax within a week of his enlistment with the 1st Depot Battalion and
Joseph Alcide Clements (Clairmont) enlisted for service with the 1st Depot Battalion but did not serve
and was discharged.
Leander was living in Pinkneys Point in 1932 and signed the death certificate of his mother at the time
of her death as the Informant.
Leander Clairmont with his mother
