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Elkanah Ernest Clements
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Elkanah Ernest Clements
282906
Private
219th Battalion; 85th Battalion
March 19, 1894
Carleton, Yarmouth Co., NS
March 6, 1915
Yarmouth, NS
Carleton, Yarmouth Co., NS
5 feet, 9 inches
light
light brown
blue
29th Battery Canadian Field Artillery, Yarmouth, NS
(Recruit)
Single
Miller
Baptist
Elkanah H Clements Carleton Yarmouth Co., NS
July 27, 1918
23
Carleton Cemetery, Nova Scotia, Canada
R.I. G.5
Commemorated on Page 386 of the First World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on August 22
Listed on the Nominal Roll of the 219th Battalion
Elkanah was the son of Elkanah Havelock Clements (b. 1859) and Eunice (Mullen) Clements (1867-
1938), of Carleton, NS.
Enlisting with the 219th Battalion, Elkanah embarked Canada at Halifax on the SS Olympic on
October 13. 1916 and disembarked England at Liverpool. He was transferred to the 17th Reserve
Battalion at Bramshott Camp on January 1, 1917 . He proceeded to France for service with the
85th Battalion and joined the unit in the field on July 7, 1917.
While in France he was gassed during an attack on the German lines. He fought at Passchendaele
and walked through nearly three miles of gas with his gas-mask on.
On December 15, 1917, suffering from muscle pain in the left thigh, he was admitted to No. 13
Canadian Field Ambulance Station and on December 19 to No 22, Canadian Casualty Station. On
December 23, 1917 he was admitted to 22 General Hospital and invalided to England and the
Norfolk War Hospital at Norwich, on December 31, 1917. Now diagnosed with pulmonary
tuberculosis, he was invalided to Canada for further treatment on March 28 1918, embarking
Liverpool on the Hospital Ship Llandovery Castle.
In Canada he was admitted to the NS Sanatorium at Kentville, NS for treatment on May 9, 1918;
however, after fifty-seven days his condition was terminal and he requested he be allowed to
return home. He was discharged from the hospital on July 5, 1918 and returned home where he
died on July 27th, 1918.
He was officially discharged from service on July 5, 1918.