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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Private Alexander Jacob Vickery
Battalion:
219th Battalion/246th Battalion/76th Company, CFC
Regimental Number:
282949/2329932
Rank:
Private
Date of Birth:
March 23, 1899
Place of Birth:
South Ohio, Yarmouth Co., N.S.
Place of Enlistment:
Barrington Passage (219th Battalion)/Aldershot.
Date of Enlistment:
March 9, 1916/June 20, 1917
Address at Enlistment:
South Ohio, Yarmouth Co., N.S.
Age at Enlistment:
18/19
Height: 5 feet 8 inches
Prior Military Experience:
Barrington Home Guard (1916)
Trade:
Farmer
Marital Status:
Single
Religion:
Baptist
Next of Kin:
(Father) Edwin Crosby Vickery, South Ohio, Yarmouth Co., N.S.
Alexander Vickery first enlisted in Barrington Passage with the 219th Battalion. He returned to Yarmouth in November, 1916 and was struck off
strength from taht Battalion. After a winter at home he enlisted at Aldershot with the Nova Scotia Forestry Depot. He was sen to England with the
Canadian Forestry Corps and to France with the 86th Company CFC. He died in France of natural causes.
Date of Death:
December 21, 1918
Cemetery:
Eclaron Communal Cemetery, France
Commemorated on Page 516 of the First World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on November 1
Sources:
http://www.canadaatwar.ca/memorial/world-war-i/104260/private-alexander-jacob-vickery/
http://www.inmemories.com/Cemeteries/eclaron.htm (photo)
Library and Archives Canada (Attestation Paper)
Commonwealth War Grave Commission
Commonwealth War Grave Commission (Cemetery Information)
Canadian Great War Project
Veterans Affairs Canada
Additional Information:
“A Monument Speaks” A Thurston; 1989 (pp 355-356)
Private Alexander Jacob Vickery
Attestation Paper
(click to enlarge)
1916:
1917