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  Yarmouth Connections
 
 
  Osborne Jonathan Perry  
  938068
  Private
  44th Battalion / 52nd Battalion / 8th Battalion
   
  June 11, 1890
  Carleton, Yarmouth Co., NS
  July 23, 1915 (official attestation)
  Shorncliffe, UK (July 23, 1915)
  Ontario
  25
  5 feet, eight inches
  medium
  brown
  blue
  Single
  Fireman
  Presbyterian
  Frederick Perry (Father) Carleton, Yarmouth Co., NS
  June 14, 1916
  27
  Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium
  Commemorated on Page 147 of the First World War Book of Remembrance 
   Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on April 4 and April 5
  Listed on the Carleton War Memorial
  The Carleton Monument spells his name ‘Osbourne’   
  Osborne was the eldest son of Frederick  and Joanna (Randall) Perry of Carleton, Yarmouth 
  Co., NS.  
  In Canada he served with the 96th Regiment of Lake Superior from December, 1914 through 
  January 1915, with the 44th Battalion between March 1 and March 15, 1915, and with the 52nd 
  Battalion from March 16, 1915.   He departed Canada sailing on the SS Scandinavian arriving in 
  England in June of 1915.
  In England he was transferred to the 32nd Reserve Battalion and taken on strength in France 
  with the 8th Battalion on August 3, 1915 .   He was killed in action on June 10, 1916 during an attack 
  on the Bluff, at Ypres.
 
 
   Osborne Jonathan Perry 
 
  
 
   
 
 
   
 
  
 
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