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Private Scott Boyce Killam
Scott Boyce Killam
283411
Private
219th Battalion/ 85th Battalion
March 16, 1895
Malone, New York, US
April 8, 1916
20
Height: 5 feet, 7 inches
Complexion: Medium
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Dark Brown
Yarmouth, NS
Tusket, Yarmouth Co., NS
Yarmouth NS
Tusket, Yarmouth Co., NS
29th Battery Canadian Field Artillery, Yarmouth (Recruit)
Single
Teamster
Baptist
Martin Luther Killam (Father) Tusket, NS
Although Scott was born in the United States, the family lived in Canada from the time he
was very young. He enlisted with the 219th Battalion at Yarmouth and sailed for England on the
SS Olympic on October 12, 1916.
He served in France with the 85th Battalion. Between April 9, 1918 and June 18, 1918 he
was hospitalized in France with an eye infection. He returned to the field and on September 28,
1918 he was wounded, a gun shot would to the left side and was again hospitalized at Etaples,
France. He was transferred to England on April 29, 1919 and returned to Canada on May 31,
1919 sailing on the HMT Adriatic arriving in Halifax on June 7, 1919. He as discharged from
service on June 15, 1919 at Halifax on demobilization.
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Discharged:
photo: 1912