Name: George Collins Farish Rank: Captain, 25th Battalion Lieutenant, 40th Battalion, 1st Reinforcing Draft Date of Birth: July 13, 1881 Place of Birth: Yarmouth, NS Date of Enlistment: April 17, 1915 Place of Enlistment: Yarmouth, NS Age at Enlistment: 33 Height: 6 Feet 4 Inches Trade: Railway Official Marital Status: Single at Enlistment/ Married Muriel Bell of Montreal in October 1916. Religion: Church of England Next of Kin: Henry G Farish (Father) Yarmouth, NS Date of Death: October 28, 1918 Age at Death: 37 Cemetery Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada Plot: K. 30. Commemorated on Page 405 of the First World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on September 1 Listed on the Nominal Roll of the 40th Battalion Listed on the Holy Trinity Church Tablet, Yarmouth, NS Commemorated on the Yarmouth Monument Born in 1881, George Collins Farish was the son of Henry Griggs Farish and Sarah Farish (Lent), of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He was employed with the Coast Railway Company, part of the Halifax and Southwestern Railway system as superintendent. He later went to Montreal and was the Canadian Northern office as sales agent for the Inverness Coal Company. He resigned his position to return to Yarmouth and enlisted with the 40th Battalion. He went to Halifax and was shortly granted a Lieutenant’s commission. He recruited a platoon in Yarmouth and accompanied them to Valcartier, Quebec. He proceeded overseas in charge of a draft of 250 men. While in England he was transferred to the 25th Battalion in France on December 4, 1915. In the spring of 1916 he was wounded at Ypres and severely shell-shocked. In June of 1916 he was in Endsleigh Palace Hospital for Officers in London with a wound made by shell casing. He was later invalided to Canada and he and his wife spent February 1917 in Jamaica and June, July and August in Yarmouth. In early 1918 he had recovered and called for duty at Aldershot, near Kentville, NS. and later sent to Halifax where he was placed in change of the Pay Offices of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces with the rank of Capitan. In the summer of 1918 he was stricken with influenza and a severe attack of appendicitis. He returned to duty; however, in October he became ill once again and died of influenza and pneumonia. A full military funeral was held on October 31, 1918 at Holy Trinity Church, Yarmouth. Captain Farish was buried at Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth. Lord Beaverbrook in his history of the war wrote the following:

George Collins Farish