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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Arthur Kelly VanHorne
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Arthur Kelly VanHorne
Major
219th Battalion
September 12, 1869
Yarmouth, NS
March 6, 1916
Halifax, NS
Yarmouth NS
46
5 feet, 11 inches
29th Battery, 11th Brigade CFA;
Active Militia of Canada since August 14, 1884
Married
Baptist
Merchant
Henrietta Dahlgren Van Horne (Wife) Yarmouth NS
March 1, 1924
Buried at Jacksonville, Florida
Arthur Kelly VanHorne was the son of Prince Albert VanHorne (1840-1881) and Deborah Amelia
Johnson (1845-1935) After the death of his father in 1881, his mother remarried and moved to Plymouth
where Arthur grew up. Arthur had four sisters, Anna, Armina, Florence, and Lillian.
At the time of his enlistment Arthur was living in Yarmouth. Having enlisted at Halifax on March 6,
1916 with the 219th Battalion, he was stationed at Aldershot, NS where on April 18, 1916 he was
promoted to the rank of Major. On September 22, 1916 Major VanHorne made application to be relieved
of duty as his wife was very ill and he felt it his duty to stay in Nova Scotia until after January of 1917.
The application was approved.
Major VanHorne died on March 1, 1924 at Jacksonville, Florida following an illness of pneumonia.
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Library and Archives Canada
photo: Courtesy of Dianne Jacquard