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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Percy Foreman Fenton
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Private
No. 2 Construction Battalion
December 10, 1898
Pleasant Lake, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia
October 9, 1916
Yarmouth, NS
Arcadia, Yarmouth Co., NS
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5 feet, 9 inches
Dark
Dark
Brown
Labourer
Single
Baptist
William Fenton (Father) Arcadia, Yarmouth Co., NS
February 14, 1919 (Halifax, NS)
October 13, 1924
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African Bethel Cemetery, Greenville, Yarmouth Co., NS
Percy Fenton was the son of William Franklin Fenton (1862-1939) and Ida May (Jarvis) Fenton (1875-
1959).
Having trained in Canada, he embarked for overseas, on the SS Southland at Halifax on March 25, 1917
arriving in England on March 7, 1917. He embarked England for service in France arriving there on
May 17, 1917. On December 5, 1917 he was admitted to hospital suffering from influenza. Discharged
on December 17, he returned to his unit.
He returned to England on December 14, 1918 and to
Canada on January 1, 1919. Having served in Canada,
England, and France he was discharged on demobilization
on February 14, 1919.
Percy Fenton died of tuberculous on October 13, 1924, at
the age of 26.
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(photo: Africa’s Children, History of Blacks in Yarmouth, NS; Sharon Robart-Johnson)
