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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Frank Anthony Jacquard
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Frank Anthony Jacquard
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Priivate
165th Battalion/NS Forestry Depot
March 3, 1878
Yarmouth, NS
September 14, 1916
Yarmouth NS
Yarmouth, NS
38
5 feet, 2 inches
dark
black
green
29th Battery CFA Yarmouth (2 years)
Married
Roman Catholic
Longshoreman
Mrs. Frank A Jacquard (Wife)
Main St., Yarmouth NS
March 13, 1936
Frank was the son of Mrs. Lizzie (Elizabeth) Jacquard. He was married with six children at enlistment,
four girls and two boys, ranging in age from one to eleven.
He Left Halifax on June 22, 1917 aboard the SS Justicia and arrived in England on July 4, 1917 and was
taken on strength at Base Depot Canadian Forestry Corps at Sunningdale. He was posted to 59 Company, CFC
and arrived in France on July 30, 1917.
On August 14, 1917 he was sentenced to ten days, Punishment No 2 for being absent without leave from
10:00 pm to 11:00 pm on August 11, 1917. Field Punishment No. 1 entailed labour duties and attachment to a
fixed object such as a post two hours a day. Field Punishment No. 2 differed only in that the soldier was not
bound to a fixed object.
On December 13, 1917 Frank was appointed as a cook for the Company. In late September of 1918 he
was granted fourteen days leave and returned to the field on October 8, 1918. He returned from France to
England at Sunningdale Depot on December 27, 1918 and embarked for Canada on February 15, 1919 arriving at
Halifax on February 25, 1919.
He was forty-one years of age when he was discharged from service on demobilization on March 15,
1919.