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  Private Scott Boyce Killam
 
  
 
  Scott Boyce Killam
  283411
  
  Private
  219th Battalion/ 85th Battalion
  
   
  March 16, 1895
  Malone, New York, US 
  April 8, 1916
  20
  Height: 5 feet, 7 inches
  Complexion:  Medium
  Eyes:             Brown
  Hair:             Dark Brown
  Yarmouth, NS
  Tusket, Yarmouth Co., NS
  Yarmouth NS
   
  Tusket, Yarmouth Co., NS
  29th Battery Canadian Field Artillery, Yarmouth (Recruit)
  Single
  Teamster
  Baptist
  Martin Luther Killam (Father) Tusket, NS
  
  
  
  Although Scott was born in the United States, the family lived in Canada from the time he 
  was very young.  He enlisted with the 219th Battalion at Yarmouth and sailed for England on the 
  SS Olympic on October 12, 1916. 
  He served in France with the 85th Battalion.  Between April 9, 1918 and June 18, 1918 he 
  was hospitalized in France with an eye infection.  He returned to the field and on September 28, 
  1918 he was wounded, a gun shot would to the left side and was again hospitalized at Etaples, 
  France. He was transferred to England on April 29, 1919 and returned to Canada on May 31, 
  1919 sailing on the HMT Adriatic arriving in Halifax on June 7, 1919.  He as discharged from 
  service on June 15, 1919 at Halifax on demobilization. 
 
 
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  Date of Enlistment
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  photo: 1912  
 
 