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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Horace McLaughlin
41179
Driver
Canadian Field Artillery
2nd Brigade; 6th Battery
June 2, 1887
Shelburne, NS
January 26, 1915
Valcartier, Quebec
28
5 feet, 6 inches
dark
dark brown
brown
29th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, Yarmouth, NS
(7 years)
Single
Farmer
Presbyterian
Louisa McLaughlin (Mother) Brooklyn, Yarmouth Co., NS
August 5, 1918
31
Etaples Military Cemetery, France
LXVIII. F. 28
Commemorated on Page 461 of the First World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on October 1
Horace was the son of James and Louisa McLaughlin, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The family,
originally living in Shelburne moved to Yarmouth in 1901.
Horace was one of the first from Yarmouth to enlist and enlisted at Valcartier.
While serving in France he was engaged with the transport service conveying supplies to the
front line trenches. On a number of occasions during 1917 he was hospitalized for minor
ailments and he suffered slight wounds.
In 1918 he became dangerously ill, resulting from diabetes, and was admitted to the Etaples
Hospital, France. He died on August 5, 1918.
His nickname was “Mister Man” and he was often mentioned in letters from the front.
Horace McLaughlin
Horace McLaughlin (right) with a friend
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Additional Information:
“A Monument Speaks” A Thurston; 1989 (p 239)
