Name: Landry Louis Amiro Rank: Private Regimental Number: 3180402 Battalion: 1st Depot Battalion, Nova Scotia Regiment Date of Birth: February 14, 1894 Place of Birth: Pubnico, Yarmouth Co., NS Date of Enlistment: February 18, 1918 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Cliff St., Yarmouth NS Age at Enlistment: 24 Height: 5 Feet, 4½ Inches Complexion: Dark Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Black Martial Status: Single Trade: Clerk Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Mrs. Genevieve Amiro (Mother) Yarmouth. NS Date of Death: April 9, 1918 Cause of Death: Pneumonia Age at Death: 24 Cemetery: Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Middle East Pubnico, Nova Scotia, Canada Commemorated on Page 359 of the First World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on August 6 and August 7 Listed on the Yarmouth Monument as Amirault, Landry Landry Amiro was the son of the late William Henry Amiro (1862-1912) and Genevieve Anne (LeBlanc) Amiro (1870-1953). His siblings were Henry S Amiro (1891-1892), Marion Elizabeth Amirault (1892-1966), Charles Vincent Amirault (1897-1990), Marc Eloi Amirault (1899-1979), Donald Amirault (1904-1974), Lillian Marguerite Amirault (1905-1999), and Francis Amiro (b. 1908). Landry’s father was a collector of customs at East Pubnico for years and he died in 1912. His mother moved to Yarmouth and operated the Clam Shell restaurant, on the corner of Lovitt and Main Streets. His brother Charles Vincent Amiro served with the 29th Battery of the Canadian Field Artillery in Yarmouth before WWI, and with the 112th Battalion (Service No. 2329304), during the war, voluntarily enlisting in Yarmouth on March 13, 1916. He was discharged as medically unfit for overseas service by medical staff at Military Camp Aldershot in Kings Co., NS on June 30, 1916. However, he reenlisted in Halifax on March 19, 1917, and served with the Canadian Forestry Corps in Canada and England and was discharged at demobilization January 17, 1919. Landry lived at the corner of Cliff and Kirk Streets in Yarmouth. Landry worked as a member of the staff of E.K. Spinney Limited, a hardware company, several doors north of the family’s restaurant at Lovitt and Main Street. In the early years of the war with his brother already serving, Landry did not enlist as he was the sole support for his widowed mother and younger siblings. He was given his medical on October 17, 1917. As the demand for men grew more desperate, this exemption was rarely granted, and he was conscripted and required to report to Halifax on February 18, 1918. He became ill with pneumonia in March 1918. His mother departed Yarmouth by train to be by his side in Halifax, but he died at 8:00 AM on April 9, 1918. Landry’s sister Lillian attended the Provincial Normal College in Truro and, beginning in 1925, taught at the South End School in Yarmouth, NS, for more than 35 years. It was she who told the story of school janitor, John Selvage (1893-1960), a WWI Veteran who served with the 25th Battalion, “He was overseas and saw the King when he came to inspect them. Now, it is quite an honour to see one’s King.”