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Osborne Jonathan Perry
938068
Private
44th Battalion / 52nd Battalion / 8th Battalion
June 11, 1890
Carleton, Yarmouth Co., NS
July 23, 1915 (official attestation)
Shorncliffe, UK (July 23, 1915)
Ontario
25
5 feet, eight inches
medium
brown
blue
Single
Fireman
Presbyterian
Frederick Perry (Father) Carleton, Yarmouth Co., NS
June 14, 1916
27
Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium
Commemorated on Page 147 of the First World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on April 4 and April 5
Listed on the Carleton War Memorial
The Carleton Monument spells his name ‘Osbourne’
Osborne was the eldest son of Frederick and Joanna (Randall) Perry of Carleton, Yarmouth
Co., NS.
In Canada he served with the 96th Regiment of Lake Superior from December, 1914 through
January 1915, with the 44th Battalion between March 1 and March 15, 1915, and with the 52nd
Battalion from March 16, 1915. He departed Canada sailing on the SS Scandinavian arriving in
England in June of 1915.
In England he was transferred to the 32nd Reserve Battalion and taken on strength in France
with the 8th Battalion on August 3, 1915 . He was killed in action on June 10, 1916 during an attack
on the Bluff, at Ypres.
Osborne Jonathan Perry
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