Remembering World War I Yarmouth Connections

Robert John Amero

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Robert John (Amirault) Amero 733648 Private 112th Battalion / 165th Battalion October 8, 1896 (actual 1898) Pinkney's Point, Yarmouth Co., NS December 21, 1915 Yarmouth NS Little River, Yarmouth, NS 19 (actual age 17) 5 feet, 7 inches fair brown brown 29th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, Yarmouth, NS Single Fisherman Robert Amero Sr (Father) Little River, Yarmouth Co., NS May 1966 (Yarmouth, NS) Having enlisted with the 112th Battalion, he transferred to the 165th Battalion and embarked Canada on the SS Metagama at Halifax on March 25, 1917 and disembarked in England at Liverpool on April 4, 1917. He transferred to Company 47 Canadian Forestry Corps at Sunningdale and landed in France on June 22, 1917. He returned to Canada on the SS Lapland and was discharged on demobilization at Halifax on March 18, 1919. John Robert Amirault also served during WWII. He died at Yarmouth in May 1966.