copyright © Wartime Heritage Association 2012-2024
Website hosting courtesy of Register.com - a web.com company
Wartime Heritage
ASSOCIATION
Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Alcide William Amirault
Name:
Service No
Rank
Battalion/Service
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Date of Enlistment:
Place of Enlistment:
Address at Enlistment:
Age at Enlistment:
Height:
Complexion:
Hair Colour:
Eye Colour:
Martial Status:
Religion
Trade:
Next of Kin:
Alcide William Amirault
666536
Private
Canadian Forestry Corps / 165th
December 29, 1887
West Pubnico, Yarmouth Co., NS
April 8, 1916
West Pubnico NS
West Pubnico, Yarmouth Co., NS
29
5 feet, 5 inches
fair
brown
brown
Single
Roman Catholic
Farmer
Cyrien Amirault (Father) West Pubnico, Yarmouth Co., NS
He embarked Canada on the SS Metagama at Halifax on March 25, 1917 and disembarked in England
at Liverpool on April 4, 1917. At Sunningdale he was posted to 39 Company, Canadian Forestry Corps and
disembarked at La Havre, France on May 25, 1917. On February 2, 1918 he proceeded to a School of
Cookery at Rouen and returned to 39 Company on March 9, 1918. He was awarded a Good Conduct Badge
on April 8, 1918. He was granted fourteen days leave to the UK on August 9, 1918 and rejoined his
Company in France on August 27, 1918.
Alcide returned to Canada in February, 1919 and was discharged at Halifax on March 7, 1919.