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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
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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