Name: Percy Adelbert Berriman Service Number: 3185312 Regiment: 1st Depot Battalion Nova Scotia Rank: Private Date of Birth: October 8, 1895 Place of Birth: Yarmouth NS Date of Enlistment: August 24, 1918 Place of Enlistment: Aldershot NS Address at Enlistment: Arcadia, Yarmouth Co., NS Age at Enlistment: 22 Height: 5 feet, 2 inches Complexion: Coloured Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Dark Trade: Labourer Next of Kin: Henry Berriman (Father) Arcadia, Yarmouth Co., NS Religion: Protestant Discharged: Discharged April 8, 1919 at Halifax; Date of Death: July 15, 1919 Cemetery: Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth NS Listed on the Yarmouth War Memorial Percy Adelbert Berriman was the son of Charles Henry Berriman (1863-1941) and Minnie Ida (Sisco) Berriman (1875-1954) of Arcadia, Yarmouth, NS. His siblings were Reta Mae Berryman Borden (1898- 1984), Sabra Kathleen Berryman (1900-1979), Infant Berryman (1902-1902), Infant Berryman (1903- 1904), Henry Berryman, Marian May Berryman Ogden (1905-1984), and Morton Berryman (1908-1999). Pery enlisted with the 1st Depot Battalion of Nova Scotia on May 18, 1918, at Aldershot, Kings County, NS, and was attached to the 17 Reserve Battalion once in England. He served in England from August 2, 1918, and became ill while serving at Bramshott in East Hampshire. He was invalided to Canada on February 5, 1919, and admitted to Camp Hill Hospital, in Halifax suffering from tuberculosis. Private Percy Adelbert Berriman died July 15, 1919, at the Kentville Sanitorium only four months after being repatriated home to Canada. His body was returned to his home town, and he is buried at Mountain Cemetery in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

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