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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Adolph Amiro
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Adolph Amiro
734219 / 666907
Private
112th Battalion / 165th Battalion
September 9, 1896
West Pubnico, Yarmouth Co., NS
March 13, 1916
Yarmouth NS
West Pubnico, Yarmouth Co., NS
20
5 feet, 7 inches
fair
dark brown
brown
Single
Roman Catholic
Steamship Waiter
Ludger Amiro (Father) West Pubnico,
Yarmouth Co., NS
March 21, 1919
Adolph first enlisted with the 112th Battalion at Yarmouth on March 13, 1916 but was given a
medical discharge on September 2, 1916 at Halifax. (Service Number: 734219; date of birth given as
1895).
On December 20, 1917 he re-enlisted at St John, NB with the 165th Battalion (666907). He
embarked Canada on the SS Metagama at Halifax on March 25, 1917 and disembarked in England at
Liverpool on April 4, 1917. He transferred to 47 Company, Canadian Forestry Corps and landed in France
on June 23, 1917.
Contracting influenza, he was hospitalized at La Havre, Normandy on December 24, 1918 and on
January 21, 1919 transferred to Base Depot at Sunningdale, England for return to Canada. On return to
Canada he was discharged on demobilization at Halifax on March 21, 1919.