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Remembering World War I
The Cenotaph, located in front of the Yarmouth County Library, Main Street, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia lists the names of 173 men and women
from Yarmouth Town and County.
Three names were listed in error on the Yarmouth Memorial and Wartime Heritage does not list the names as casualties.
d'Entremont, William A
Crowell, Thomas D.
Titus, William Peter - Canadian Army Medical Corps; Died March 21, 1971
The Yarmouth Town and County War Memorial
Allen, Joseph Hamilton
27th Battalion; d. Sept. 15, 1916; (b. Yarmouth)
Anderson, Alexander John
26th Battalion; d. July 4, 1917; (b. Yarmouth)
Bertrand, Dennis
64th Battalion; d. December 20, 1918; (b. Wedgeport, Yarmouth Co., NS)
Burrell, Eric Judson
17th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery; d. July 19, 1932; (b. Yarmouth) Death attributed to Wartime Service
Clark, Ralph Burton
25th Battalion; d. June 23, 1924; (b. Yarmouth) Death attributed to Wartime Service
d’Entremont, Albany A.
SS Stella Maris (Tug), d. December 6, 1917; (b. West Pubnico, Yarmouth Co., NS)
Doane, Henry Clinton
Schooner F W Roebling; d. December 6, 1917; (b. Yarmouth)
Ellis, Ivan Earl
26th Infantry Division, ‘B’ Company , American Expeditionary Force; d. July 1, 1918; (b. Yarmouth)
Fox, Murray William
Canadian Army Service Corps; d. January 29, 1934; (b. Yarmouth) Death attributed to Wartime Service
Gayton, Roswell
US Merchant Navy (SS Lake City); d. October 3, 1918; (b. Lower Argyle) Death attributed to Wartime Service
Treffry, Hallett Archibald
85th Battalion; d. April 4, 1935; (b. Pleasant Lake, Yarmouth Co., NS); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Hamm, William Edward
85th Battalion; d. September 5, 1925; (b Yarmouth); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Holly, James Walter
25th Battalion; d. August 8, 1918; (b. Yarmouth)
Hood, Arthur William
25th Battalion; d. January 16, 1927; (b. Yarmouth); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Hulsman, Chester Howard
3rd Brigade, CFA; d. July 27, 1916; (b. Yarmouth)
King, Gordon Willoughby
USS Chicago, US Navy; d. June 23, 1917; (b. Yarmouth)
Larkin, Glendall Crowell
2nd Mate, SS Aztec (Am Merchant Ship); April 1, 1917; (b. Yarmouth)
Larkin, Harry Lewis
2nd Ass. Engieer, SS Aztec (Am Merchant Ship); April 1, 1917; (b. Yarmouth)
MacKinnon, Norman Scott
Chief Skipper HMCS Niobe RCN; d. February 28, 1918; (b.Yarmouth)
McDonnell, Robert
44th Battalion; d. Oct. 26, 1917 (b. Argyle, Yarmouth Co., NS)
Matheson, Charles
236th Battalion; d. September 10, 1917; (b. Yarmouth)
McComiskey, Edward Charles
73rd Battalion; d. March 21, 1916; (b. Pubnico, Yarmouth Co., NS)
Moores, Clinton Ray
64th Battalion; d. March 2, 1927; (b. Sand Beach, Yarmouth Co., NS); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Moulaison, Pierre Jervis
25th Battalion; d. December 31, 1923; (b. Abrams River, Yarmouth Co., NS); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Muise, Benjamin Archibald
6th Battalion Canadian Garrison Regiment d. July 25, 1919 (b. in Amirault’s Hill) Death attributed to Wartime Service
Muise, Cyril William
219th Battalion; d. December 6, 1918; (b. Quinan, Yarmouth Co., NS)
Penney, Sidney Stephen
72nd Battalion (British Columbia Regiment); d. July 23, 1918; (b. Yarmouth)
Perry, Wilfred
3rd Battalion; d. November 6, 1917; (b. Yarmouth) Death attributed to Wartime Service
Pitman, George Leslie
Canadian Forestry Corps (b Carleton, Yarmouth Co., NS)
Pitman, William Leslie
Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve; d. July 24, 1920; (b. Brooklyn, Yarmouth Co., NS); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Porter, Alvnie
256th Battalion; d. March 10, 1928; (b. Tusket, Yarmouth Co., NS); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Pothier, Edward Joseph
24th Battalion; d. December 23, 1929; (b. Yarmouth); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Ring, Arthur Franklyn
256th Overseas Railway Construction Battalion; d. October 26, 1923; (b. Yarmouth); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Rogers, Arthur Edgar
31st Battalion; d. May 21, 1942; (b. Yarmouth) Death attributed to Wartime Service
Roy, Louis Joseph
58th Howitzer Batter, 14th Brigade, CFA; d. September 25, 1924; (b. Yarmouth) Death attributed to Wartime Service
Saulnier, Joseph Jeffrey
Canadian Engineers; d. September 29, 1924; (b. Yarmouth); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Spates, Milby Murray
1st Depot Battalion, Nova Scotia; d. August 19, 1919; (b. Gavelton, Yarmouth Co., NS); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Taylor, Charles Adelbert
25 Battalion; d. September 12, 1923; (b. Yarmouth); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Wheaton, Jack Merritt
85th Battalion; d. April 9, 1917; (b. Yarmouth)
White Henry Edward
25th Battalion, May 2, 1931 (b. Yarmouth); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Williams, Charles Henry
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry; d. October 1, 1918; (b. Yarmouth)
Withycombe, Keith Dalston
Royal Field Artillery; d. October 22, 1918; (b. Yarmouth)
Wright, John Joseph
The King's (Liverpool Regiment); d. March 22, 1918 (b. Yarmouth)
6 Residents of Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia at enlistment:
Cahan, John Flint
1st Canadian Pioneer Battalion; d. November 8, 1928; (Resident of Hebron, Yarmouth Co., NS); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Lent, William Harris
Canadian Field Artillery; d. August 10, 1941; (Resident of Tusket, Yarmouth Co., NS); Death attributed to Wartime Service
MacDonnell, Gladwyn John
Canadian Machine Gun Corps, 2nd Battalion; d. Aug. 13, 1918; (Resident of Yarmouth, NS at enlistment)
Nichols, Ansel Hamilton
219th Battalion/85th Battalion; d. June 25, 1931 ; ((Resident of Brazil Lake, Yarmouth Co., NS); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Perry, William Garfield
1st Depot Battalion, Nova Scotia; d. June 26, 1920; (Resident of Yarmouth, NS)
Wilkinson, John William
64th Battalion; d. July 7, 1937; (Resident of Yarmouth); Death attributed to Wartime Service
6 Enlisted in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Melanson, Benoit Joseph
25th Battalion; d. August 9, 1918 (b. in Grosses Coques, Digby Co., NS)
Murphy, Roy Vincent
38th Battalion; d. September 2, 1918 (b. Lockeport, Shelburne Co., NS)
Sholds, Clarence Melvin
The Royal Canadian Regiment; d. November 11, 1918; (b. Doctor's Cove, Shelburne Co., NS)
Steele, Elezer
25th Battalion; d. April 27, 1916; (b. Northern Bay, Bay De Verde, Newfoundland)
Thimot, Odelpha
14th Battalion; d. September 27, 1918; (b. Saulnierville, Digby County, NS)
Tucker, Ebenezer
Canadian Forestry Corps; d. February 8, 1919 (b.Winterton, Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland)
9 Related to Residents of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Andrews, Alexander Carl
United States Navy; d. October 1, 1918; (Son of Wentworth Kinney Andrews, Little River, Yarmouth Co., NS)
Holmes, Wallace W.
Canadian Field Artillery; d. May 30, 1926; (Husband of Muriel Elizabeth (Cann) Holmes); Death attributed to Wartime Service
Hurlburt, David Seamore
13th Battalion; d. September 2, 1918; (Son of David Hurlburt, Yarmouth, NS)
Kay, Leonard Redvers
25th Battalion; d. December 13, 1925; (Yarmouth Parents) Death attributed to Wartime Service
Lorking, Albert
7th Regiment; d. May 6, 1938; (Husband of Minnie Redding Lorking, Hebron, Yarmouth Co., NS) Death attributed to Wartime Service
Meuse, Thomas Edward
Co F, 102nd Inf. Regt., 26th Div. US Army; d. August 18, 1918 (Son of Sylvester Meuse, b. Tusket, and Mary Elizabeth (LaFave) Meuse; b. Eel Brook)
Redmond, Frederick
103rd Inf. Regt., 26th Division, US Army; d. November 27, 1918; (Son of Joanna Scoville and step-son of Levi Scoville, South Chegoggin, Yarmouth Co.)
Daniel Norman MacRitchie
Lieutenant, US Naval Reserve; d. April 7, 1918; (Father of Norman Conrad MacRitchie, resident of Yarmouth, NS)
Scarth, James Arnold Percival
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles; d. June 2, 1916 (Brother of H. A. C. Scarth of Yarmouth, NS.)
The Wartime Heritage Association Casualty Page
lists 170 war dead with the addition of the following 64 names not listed on the Cenotaph
43 Born in Yarmouth/Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia