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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Peter Ambroise Muise (Meuse)
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Private
73rd Company, Canadian Forestry Corps
February 22, 1887
Amirault’s Hill, Yarmouth Co., NS
April 21, 1917
Yarmouth, NS
Amirault’s Hill, Yarmouth Co., NS
30
5 feet, 7 inches
fair
light
grey
Single
Farmer
Roman Catholic
Raymond Meuse (Father) Amirault’s Hill, Yarmouth Co., NS
October 21, 1918
31
Etaples Military Cemetery, France
LXVII. K. 32.
Commemorated on Page 470 of the First World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on October 7
Listed on the Yarmouth War Memorial as “Muise, Peter”.
Peter Meuse was the son of Raymond and Marie Madeleine (Deviller) Meuse, of Amirault’s
Hill, Yarmouth Co., NS. He enlisted at Yarmouth with the Nova Scotia Forestry Corps in April,
1917 and embarked Halifax for England arriving there on July 5, 1917. He sailed on the SS
Justicia.
He was assigned to #71 Company, Canadian Forestry Corps on August 11, 1917 and arrived in
France on August 12, 1917. He was admitted to hospital on February 10, 1918 having suffered a
fracture to his leg. He was discharged from hospital on June 5, 1918 and rejoined his Company in
the field. On July 13, 1918 he was transferred to #73 Company.
On October 10, 1918 he became dangerously ill with pneumonia and was admitted to No. 7
General Hospital, at Le Treport. He was transferred to the Canadian General Hospital at Etaples
were he died on October 21, 1918.
Peter Meuse
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