Name: Frank Charles Amero Rank: Private Service Number: G/46283 Service: 20th Company, Veteran Guard of Canada Date of Birth: May 18, 1895 Place of Birth: Plympton, Digby County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: July 24, 1941 Place of Enlistment: Saint John, New Brunswick Address at Enlistment: Amirault’s Corner, Doucetteville, Digby County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 46 Height: 5 feet, 5 inches Complexion: Medium Hai Colour: Dark Brown Eye Colour: Blue Occupation: Farming, Laborer, Lumbering Marital Status: Married Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Anna Amero (Wife) Date of Death: June 25, 1942 Age: 47 Cemetery: Doucetteville (Sacred Heart) Cemetery, Digby County, Nova Scotia Commemorated on Page 54 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed on the Peace Tower in Ottawa on February 6, 7 and 8 Frank Charles Amero was the son of Charles Mark Amero (1848-1937) and Philomena Rose (Robicheau) Amero (1851-1925), the brother of Mary Amero (1871-1871), Albert John Amero (1873-1960), Mariam Lavinia Amero (1875-1875), Mary Amero (b. 1875), Henry Amero (1876-1876), Agnes ‘Aggie’ Amero (b. 1878), Margaret May Amero (b. 1880), Rose Amero (1881-1961), Wallace C. Amero (1884-1923), Bernard Amero (1888-1974), and Michael J Amero (1893-1939). Frank was the husband of Ann Elizabeth (Hall) Amero (1901-1980), and the father of Ellen Eugine Amero (1925-1925), Olive Doreen Amero (b. 1926), Florence Jean Amero (d. 2011), Sydney James Amero (1922- 2009), and Wallace Frank Amero (1924-1981). Frank’s two sons Sydney and Wallace served in the Canadian military during WWII. Frank enlisted and served Canada at the rank of Private in the First World War with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps (Service Number 3189990) from 1918-1919. He enlisted June 13, 1918, at Camp Aldershot, (1st Depot Battalion, NS Regiment). He transferred to the UK aboard the SS Ixion arriving August 15, 1918. He was assigned to the 17th Reserve Battalion on arrival August 16, 1918. He transferred to the Canadian Machine Gun Depot on September 16, 1918, and to France on November 7, 1918, with the Canadian Machine Gun Reserve Pool. On February 12, 1919, he was assigned to the No. 3 Canadian Infantry Works Company. Returned to England on May 14, 1919, he subsequently sailed for Canada on July 2, 1919, on the SS Olympic, and was discharged July 17, 1919, at Halifax, to return home to Doucetteville. Twenty-two years later, Frank would serve Canada at war a second time, enlisting in the summer of 1941 and assigned to the Veterans Guard of Canada. He served with the 20th Company which primarily recruited in Military District 7, New Brunswick. The Veterans Guard of Canada was a defence force in the event of an invasion, but its members also guarded military installations, transportation facilities (such as train trestle bridges, etc.), and internment camps. Frank was serving with 20th Co. in Quebec on the evening of June 25, 1942, when a doctor, medical officer Lt. Colonel J.A. Petitclerc with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps at the Quebec Military Hospital was called to the Veteran’s Hut at the St. Malo Shops, near the entrance to the parade grounds. Frank had suffered an apoplectic stroke and died. His body was returned to Nova Scotia, and he was interred at the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery in Doucetteville, Digby Co., NS. Frank Charles Amero’s obituary in The Digby Courier, Thursday, July 2, 1942: Pte. Frank C. Amero of Amero's Corner, Doucetteville, stationed in Quebec in the Home Guard, died suddenly last Thursday night, the victim of a heart attack possibly brought on by excitement while watching a wrestling match. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Amero of Doucetteville and was 46 years of age. He is survived by his widow (a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hall, of Digby); two sons in the service, Sydney overseas and Wallace in Yarmouth; and two daughters, Olive in Digby, and Jean at home. The remains arrived on Monday and interment was in Doucetteville on Tuesday morning, Rev. Father Gaudet officiating.

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave