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ASSOCIATION
Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
1914
November 1, 1914
Cann, Malcolm
Royal Canadian Navy (aboard HMS Good Hope)
1915
January 17, 1915
Foster, William H.
Merchant Seaman (cook on Steamer, George Royle; ship struck mine)
April 25, 1915
Saunders, Raymond A.
6th Battery, 2nd Artillery Brigade CFA (died in Battle of St. Julien)
October 15, 1915
Hersey, Adelbert
25th Battalion (died from wounds)
November 3, 1915
Hatfield, Arthur W.
25th Battalion (killed in action)
December 26, 1915
Mullen, Edgar
64th Battalion (died of illness at Halifax, NS)
1916
January 3, 1916
Cossar, Ralph Avon
64th Battalion (died of illness, Halifax, NS)
January 30, 1916
Bingay, Lloyd Woolsey
(Veteran Boer War) 8th Battalion
February 5, 1916
Studley, Enoch
85th Battalion (died of illness, Military Hospital, Halifax, NS)
March 7, 1916
Jeffery, Amos R.
26th Battalion (New Brunswick) (killed in action; killed by sniper)
March 21, 1916
McComiskey, Edward Charles
73 Battalion (died of illness, Montreal; not Listed on Yarmouth War Memorial)
March 31, 1916
Blauvelt, Benjamin D.
194th Battalion, Edmonton, Alberta (died of illness, Edmonton, AB)
April 11, 1916
Crosby, Keith B.
24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles, Montreal) (killed in action)
April 14, 1916
Dunphy, Lawrence
25th Battalion (killed in action - Battle of the Craters)
April 27, 1916
Steele, Eleazer
25th Battalion (Not Listed on Yarmouth War Memorial)
May 1, 1916
Stone, Thomas W.
5th Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Company (killed in action)
May 23, 1916
Hamilton, Arthur R.
1st Pioneers/40th Battalion
June _, 1916
Jeffery, Sidney J.
26th Battalion (New Brunswick) (killed in action)
June 2, 1916
Scarth, James Arnold Percival
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles
June 2, 1916
Scott, Leonard W.
6th Canadian Mounted Rifles (killed Battle of Ypres)
June 4, 1916
Gardner, E. Stanley
52nd Battalion (killed in action, Ypres)
June 5, 1916
d'Entremont, Leo J.
112th Battalion/RCR (Royal Canadian Regiment) (killed in action)
June 14, 1916
Perry, Osborne Jonathan
8th Battalion
June 15, 1916
Murree, Henry S.
25th Battalion (killed in action)
July 5, 1916
Neitz, William H.
25th Battalion
July 8, 1917
Murree, Edward
25th Battalion
July 13, 1916
O'Brien, John K.
2nd Canadian Pioneer Battalion
July 19, 1916
Gavel, Sidney John
53rd Australian Infantry Battalion
July 24, 1916
Sweeney, Tracey T.
25th Battalion (killed in action)
July 27, 1916
Forbes, Frank L.
6th Regiment Imperial Army (died of wounds)
July 27, 1916
Hulsman, Chester Howard
3rd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery (Not Listed on Yarmouth War Memorial)
August 1, 1916
Sanders, Clarence B.
25th Battalion (wounded on July 30)
August 5, 1916
Pothier, Walter
26th Battalion (New Brunswick)
September 15, 1916
Allen, Joseph Hamilton
27th Battalion (Not Listed on Yarmouth War Memorial)
September 15, 1916
Turnball, George A.
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (killed in action)
September 17, 1916
Doucette, Rene
24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles, Montreal) (killed in action)
September 21, 1916
Gray, Colin C.
85th Battalion (died of illness, Ste. Agathe Quebec Military Sanatorium)
September 21, 1916
Smith, Harry Webster
25th Battalion (Buried at Dover (St. James's) Cemetery, Kent, United Kingdom)
September 22, 1916
Doucette, Felix E.
24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles, Montreal)(died of wounds, Boulogne,France)
September 23, 1916
Purdy, Charles Loran
2nd Battalion (Ontario) (wounded died in ambulance to hospital)
September 25, 1916
Roy, David William
9th Howitzer Battery, 3rd Brigade Canadian Field Artillery
September 28, 1916
Deveau, George E.
26th Battalion (New Brunswick) (killed in action)
September 29, 1916
Morine, Donald L.
26th Battalion (New Brunswick) (aged 17)
October 1, 1916
Robinson, Richard B.
25th Battalion
October 1, 1916
Giles, Matthew
25th Battalion (killed in action)
October 6, 1916
Delaney, Hiram F.
25th Battalion (died of wounds)
October 11, 1916
Bain, Joseph G.
2nd Battalion (Ontario) (wounded two week earlier)
November 9, 1916
Blackadar, G.W. Lee
46th Battalion
November 22, 1916
Dixon, Ernest L.
4th Division 12th Machine Gun Company (joined at 17; killed in action)
December 8, 1916
Tupper, Addie Allen
Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps (died of illness, England)
December 23, 1916
King, Joseph E.
112th Battalion (died of illness, hospital Bramshott, England)
1917
January 15, 1917
Bishara, John
25th Battalion (wounded in France; died in England)
January 17, 1917
Annable, Frederick M.
25th Battalion (bugler; killed by sniper)
January 18, 1917
Moulaison, John E.
25th Battalion (wounded on 17th)
January 19, 1917
Doucette, G. Alphonso
165th Battalion (died of illness, St. John, NB)
April 1, 1917
Larkin, Glendall Crowell
SS Aztec (Lost at Sea) US Merchant Navy
April 1, 1917
Larkin, Harry Lewsis
SS Aztec (Lost at Sea) US Merchant Navy
April 4, 1917
Ewan, Thayne M.
Canadian Engineers Training Depot (died at Military Hospital, St. John’s, Quebec)
April 4, 1917
Hersey, Frank
8th Canadian Siege Battery, Canadian Garrison Artillery (killed in action)
April 4, 1917
Moses, George M.
85th Battalion
April 9, 1917
d'Entremont, William R.
112th Battalion/25th Battalion (also William R; (killed in action, France)
April 9, 1917
Kehoe, Donald
Canadian Machine Gun Corps (6th Machine Gun Company) (killed in action)
April 9, 1917
Walsh, J. Clarence
219th Battalion/42nd Battalion (name also spelled “Welsh”)
April 9, 1917
Stingel, Charles E.
3rd Battalion (killed in action)
April 9, 1917
Wheaton, Jack Merritt
85th Battalion; KIA Vimy Ridge assault (Not Listed on Yarmouth War Memorial)
April 10, 1917
Giles, James Henry
13th Battalion (killed in action)
April 10, 1917
Panell, Chester
No. 2 Construction Battalion (d. illness, Stanley Auxiliary Hospital, Liverpool)
April 11, 1917
Spates, Vernell
42nd Battalion (wounded April 9, 1917)
April 18, 1917
Williams, J. Lewis
Canadian Machine Gun Corps (6th Machine Gun Company) (killed in action)
April 28, 1917
Kinney, Frank F.
25th Battalion
April 28, 1917
Goodwin, Robert L.
25th Battalion (killed in action, Vimy)
April 29, 1917
Goodwin, Merton H.
25th Battalion (killed in action, Vimy)
April 29, 1917
Murree, Gordon S.
25th Battalion (killed in action, Vimy)
April 29, 1917
Hemeon, Carl
25th Battalion (killed in action)
April 29, 1917
Lewis, Eugene M.
25th Battalion
April 29. 1917
Long, T. Harold
25th Battalion
April 29, 1917
Muise, John Alfred
25th Battalion
April 30, 1917
Allen, A. Spencer
18th Battalion/ 9th Squadron Royal Flying Corps
May 3, 1917
Marshall, Ernest S.
2nd Battalion (Ontario)
June 13, 1917
Crosby, Thomas Carleson
85th Battalion (Crosby, Thomas Carlton) (killed in action)
June 13, 1917
Pierce, Douglas C.
85th Battalion (died of illness)
June 15, 1917
Dexter, James W.
85th Battalion (gassed in France)
June 16, 1917
Eldridge, J. Harvey
85th Battalion (killed in action, Lens)
June 16, 1917
Chipman, Nathan L.
85th Battalion (killed in action, Lens)
June 21, 1917
Gordon, Albert
25th Battalion (wounded April 16; died at Bramshott)
June 23, 1917
King, Gordon Wiloughby
USS Chicago, US Navy (died in hospital)
June 24, 1917
Simms, Wilfred S.
Royal Naval Reserve - HMS Kempton (Wilford S. Simms)
July 4, 1917
Anderson, Alexander John
26th Battalion (killed in action
July 5, 1917
Ellis, Ernest Ethel
25th Battalion (killed in action)
July 6, 1917
Muise, Nelson
25th Battalion (wounded; died in hospital)
August 3, 1917
Crosby, Charles E.
24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles, Montreal) (killed in action)
August 15, 1917
Weddleton, Walter F.
25th Battalion (killed in action)
August 16, 1917
Rogers, R. Lindsay
25 Battalion
August 25, 1917
Jeffery, Clement C.
49th Battalion (killed in action, Hill 70)
September 4, 1917
Boudreau, John M.
No 2 Tunnelling Company (known as John Lawrence Budrow)
September 10, 1917
Matheson, Charles Buckler
236th Battalion
October 9, 1917
Burgess, Arthur
5th Battalion, Canadian Siege Artillery (killed in accidental explosion in France)
October 15, 1917
Smith, Thomas Wellsley
24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles, Montreal) (killed in action)
October 21, 1917
Pothier, Cryste C.
26th Battalion/3rd Canadian Railway Troops (also known Clayton Porter)
October 23, 1917
Borden, Adelbert J.
12 Canadian Mounted Rifles (became ill in England, died at Yarmouth NS)
October 23, 1917
Smith, Edgar J.
10th Canadian Railway Troops (killed in action)
October 26, 1917
McDonnell, Robert
144th Battalion (Not Listed on Yarmouth War Memorial)
October 30, 1917
Clements, Simon
85th Battalion (killed at Passchendaele)
October 30, 1917
Crowell, Jonathan
85th Battalion (Passchendaele)
October 30, 1917
Doucette, Simon
85th Battalion (killed at Passchendaele)
October 30, 1917
Woolard, Edwin
85th Battalion (wounded and missing at Passchendaele)
October 30, 1917
Moses, William S.
85th Battalion
October 30, 1917
Rogers, Frank S.
RCR (Royal Canadian Regiment)
November 6, 1917
Perry, Wilfred
120th Battalion (killed in action; Passchendaele)
November 6, 1917
Wyman, Wilfred A.
25th Battalion (killed in action)
November 7, 1917
Crowell, George
24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles, Montreal) (killed in action)
December 6, 1917
d’Entremont, Albany A.
SS Stella Marris (Tug) (killed in Halifax Explosion December 6, 1917)
December 6, 1917
Doane, Henry Clinton
Schooner F. W. Roebling (killed in Halifax Explosion December 6, 1917)
December 12, 1917
Hemeon, Vance A.
4th Canadian Railway Troops (wounded November 30, 1917, France)
December 20, 1917
d'Entremont, Anselm
SS Stella Marris (Tug) (injured in Halifax Explosion December 6, 1917)
1918
January 16, 1918
Cann, Gilbert Franklin
85th Battalion (Gilbert Franklin) (recruiter in Canada; wounded Jan. 14 France)
February 24, 1918
Powers, Henry William
85th Battalion (wounded February 3 at Lens; died in hospital Étaples, France)
February 28, 1918
MacKinnon, Norman Scott
Chief Skipper HMCS Niobe RCN; (Not Listed on Yarmouth War Memorial)
March 17, 1918
Crowell, Thorpe D.
1st Depot Battalion New Brunswick; (died of illness, Eastbourne, England)
March 18, 1918
Durkee, Charles H.
219th Battalion “C” Company Home Guard (Halifax)
March 21, 1918
Gayton, William A.
2nd Battalion (Ontario) (Amiens)
March 22, 1918
Wright, John Joseph
The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1st/8th Battalion
March 28, 1918
Clairmont, Pierre
Recruit (died of illness, Halifax (known as Peter Clairmont)
March 28, 1918
Corning, Frank L.
13th Canadian Light Railway Operating Company (killed in France)
April 3, 1918
MacGray, Benjamin H.
15th Reserve Battalion (died of illness in hospital Aldershot, England)
April3, 1918
Price, Kenneth
10th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops
April 6, 1918
Robbins, Joseph
1st Depot Battalion (died of illness, Halifax, NS)
April 7, 1918
MacRitchie, Daniel Norman
United States Naval Reserve Force,
April 9, 1918
Amirault, Landry
Recruit (died of illness Halifax)
April 27, 1918
Roberts, Howard Lee
1st Depot Battalion; (died of illness, Halifax, NS)
May 17, 1918
Challoner, Joseph
1st Depot Battalion (died of illness, Halifax, NS)
May 17, 1918
Sweeney, George
85th Battalion (died of wounds)
May 29, 1918
Walsh, G. William
Canadian Artillery
(6th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery) (died of wounds)
June 8, 1918
Collier, Raymond
Civilian/ 1st Depot Battalion New Brunswick (died at Sussex Camp NB;illness)
July 1, 1918
Ellis, Ivan Earl
US 26th Infantry Division, ‘B’ Company, (Killed in Action, France)
July 23, 1918
Penney, Sidney Stephen
72nd Battalion (Killed in Action)
July 27, 1918
Clements, Elkanah E.
85th Battalion (gassed at Passchendaele, France; returned to NS; died at home)
August 5, 1918
McLaughlin, Horace J.
6th Battalion (twice wounded in battle; died in l Étaples, France; illness)
August 8, 1918
Holly, James Walter
25th Battalion
August 9, 1918
Allen, Trueman M.
85th Battalion
August 9, 1918
Melanson, Benoit Joseph
25th Battalion
August 10, 1918
Gates, F. Roy
47th Battalion/161st Battalion (Killed in Action, France)
August 10, 1918
Greenough, John R.
6th Howitzer, 5th Brigade Can. Field Artillery (also known as Greenoe)
August 13, 1918
MacDonnell, Gladwyn John
Canadian Machine Gun Corps, 2nd Battalion
August 16, 1918
Saulnier, Irwin C.
85th Battalion (wounded August 10 at Amiens)
August 18, 1918
Meuse, Thomas Edward
Co F, 102nd Inf. Regt., 26th Div. US Army
August 26, 1918
Harris, Louis
3rd Canadian Machine Company/ Canadian Army Medical Corps ((killed in action)
August 26, 1918
Hatfield, George W.
RCR (Royal Canadian Regiment) (killed in action)
August 27, 1918
Muise, John R.
25th Battalion
August 27, 1918
Ricker, James A.
RCR (Royal Canadian Regiment)
September 2, 1918
Hurlburt, David Seamore
13th Battalion
September 2, 1918
Murphy, Roy Vincent
237th Battalion / 97th Battalion / RCR / PPCLI
September 2, 1918
Doane, James F.
85th Battalion (wounded September 1916; killed in action 1918)
September 2, 1918
Eldridge, Harry B.
78th Battalion (killed in action Drocourt-Queant Line)
September 2, 1918
Whitman, George R.
85th Battalion (killed in action)
September 6, 1918
Doucette, Celestin
219th Battalion/17th Reserve Battalion/47th Battalion
September 10, 1918
Giles, Thomas
40th/25th Battalion/2nd Battalion Canadian Machine Gun (killed in action)
September 10, 1918
Hilton, Edward F.
3rd Brigade, Canadian Garrison Artillery (died of wounds)
September 15, 1918
Donahoe, John
25th Battalion (gassed; discharged February 1917; returned to Yarmouth)
September 26, 1918
Mathews, Edgar K.S.
U.S. 27th Division “M” Company 106th Regiment of Infantry
September 27 1918
Bourque, Emilien
85th Battalion (known as Burke)
September 27, 1918
Thimot, Odelpha
14th Battalion (Not Listed on Yarmouth War Memorial)
September 28, 1918
Goodwin, Caleb
237th Canadian Infantry Battalion/PPCLI (killed in action)
September 28, 1918
Marshall, Lloyd H.
RCR (Royal Canadian Regiment)
September 29, 1918
Amirault, Louis R.
85th Battalion - “A” Company (enlisted at 16; wounded September 27, 1918)
September 29, 1918
Smith, Lloyd
US Army 5th Company 2nd Training Battalion, 151st Depot Brigade
September 30, 1918
Sinclair, Jesse
58th Reserve Battalion (killed while on parade by German aircraft bombing)
October 1, 1918
Andrews, Alexander Carl
United States Navy (Not Listed on Yarmouth War Memorial)
October 1, 1918
Chisholm, Colin F.
10th Canadian Railways Troops (died of accidental injuries France)
October 1, 1918
Williams, Charles Henry
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
October 1, 1918
Muise, Arthur
RCR (Royal Canadian Regiment)
October 3, 1918
Gayton, Roswell
US Merchant Navy (SS Lake City)
October 4, 1918
Jeffery, Joseph B.
85th Battalion (died of wounds
October 8, 1918
Amirault, Ernest J.
65th Battalion/1st Canadian Trench Mortar Battery
October 9, 1918
Cann, James A.
Fort Garry Horse
October 10, 1918
Doucette, Anthony
25th Battalion (wounded France)
October 12, 1918
Smith, Robert Leslie
4th Middlesex Regiment, D Company 14th Platoon (killed in action)
October 14, 1918
Suttie, J. Harold
10th Siege Battery 1st Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery
October 18, 1918
Fitzgerald, Robert E.
US Army, Quartermaster Corps, Railway Division (died of illness, France)
October 20, 1918
Ryder, Clayton
US Navy - SS Calvin Austin (died of illness, Cory Hill Hospital, East Boston, MA)
October 21, 1918
Harding, William Lawrence
1st Depot Battalion (died of illness, Cogswell Military Hospital, Halifax NS)
October 21, 1918
Muise, Peter
Canadian Forestry Corps (died in No 7 General Hospital, Le Treport; illness)
October 22, 1918
Withycombe, Keith Dalston
Royal Field Artillery “D” Battery 51st Brigade
October 27, 1918
Higby, Ivan V.
101st Regiment, 26th Division, American Expeditionary Force (killed in action)
October 28, 1918
Farish, George Collins
25th Battalion (died of illness Halifax)
October 31, 1918
Johnson, Alfred L.
17th Reserve Battalion (died of illness in hospital Bramshott, England)
November 11, 1918
Sholds, Clarence Melvin
RCR / 112th Battalion / 26th Reserve Battalion
November 27, 1918
Redmond, Frederick
Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, France
December 6, 1918
Muise, Cyril William
219th Battalion; No. 11 Canadian Railway Transport
December 8, 1918
Muise, Cyril William
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Digby, NS (Not Listed on Memorial)
December 20, 1918
Bertrand, Dennis
64th Battalion
December 21, 1918
Vickery, Alexander Jacob
Canadian Forestry Corps; 76th Company, CFC (died of illness);
1919 - 1935
February 5, 1919
Travis, Gordon R.
112th Battalion/ Canadian Railway Troops
February 8, 1919
Tucker, Ebenezer
Canadian Forestry Corps
February 12, 1919
Foulis, George I.
2nd Pioneers (wounded June 1916) (died post war February 12, 1919)
March 3, 1919
Churchill, Nathan L.
85th Battalion
July 15, 1919
Berriman, Percy A.
1st Depot Battalion/17th Reserve (died of illness in England)
July 25, 1919
Muise, Benjamin Archibald
Ste-Famille Roman Catholic Cemetery, Amirault’s Hill, NS
August 19, 1919
Spates, Milby Murray
1st Depot Battalion NS
January 13, 1920
Taylor, Howard W.
219th Battalion/17th Reserve Battalion. discharged May 26, 1919;
April 22, 1920
Lawrence, Louis
219th Battalion/ Canadian Forestry Corps; (died in Kentville Sanatorium)
June 26, 1920
Perry, William Garfield
1st Depot Battalion NS
May 7,1921
Muise, John E.
Unknown unit; died at home in Surette’s Island
May 14,1921
Muise, Albert J.
Recruit (post-war accident) (known also as Charles Joseph/Joseph Henry)
September 26, 1921
Suttie, Ray Dalton
40th Battalion (died at home; enlisted August 7, 1915
March 7, 1922
Hubbard, George Edward
25th Battalion
November 25, 1922
Roy, J. Henry
(Veteran Boer War) 58th Howitzer Battery/1st Brigade Canadian Field Artillery
October 26, 1923
Ring, Arthur Franklyn
256th Overseas Railway Construction Battalion
December 31, 1923
Moulaison, Peter Jarvis
25th Battalion; (b. Abrams River)
December 23, 1923
Pothier, Edward Joseph
24th Battalion; (b. Yarmouth)
September 29, 1924
Saulnier, Joseph Jeffrey
Canadian Engineers
May 2, 1931
White, Henry Edward
25th Battalion
April 4, 1935
Treffry, Hallett Archibald
85th Battalion ; (b. Pleasant Lake)
Unknown Date of Death/Unknown Individuals
unknown date of death
Price, George E
(unknown)
unknown date of death
Keen, Harold
U.S. Army (known as Donald Keen)
unknown date of death
Murree, Ralph L.
(unknown Battalion)
unknown date of death
Muise, John F.
(Veteran Boer War) British Army (died post war)
(unknown; name listed in error on the Yarmouth War Memorial)
Crowell, Thomas D
(unknown; name listed in error on the Yarmouth War Memorial)
d'Entremont, William A
(name listed in error) Titus, William, CAMC /9th and 3rd Field Ambulance; medical discharge July 7, 1919; (d. March 21, 1971 (aged 72)
The following are those men and women with a
connection to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, who died during
World War I (1914-1918) or post war deaths attributed
to service.
The names are listed by year and date of death
Casualties of World War I
Yarmouth Nova Scotia Canada