Remembering World War I Yarmouth Connections

Maynard Brown Wyman

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Maynard Brown Wyman 282984 Sergeant 219th Battalion / 85th Battalion June 9, 1897 Sand Beach, Yarmouth Co., NS March 27, 1916 Yarmouth NS Sand Beach, Yarmouth Co., NS 18 5 feet, 8½ inches light light blue 29th Battery Canadian Field Artillery, Yarmouth, NS Single Student Baptist Wilfred O Wyman (Father), Yarmouth, NS February 17, 1919 October 22, 1971 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Maynard Brown Wyman was the son of Capt. Wilfred Wyman (1869–1943) and Florence Nightingale (Gavel) Wyman of Sand Beach, Yarmouth Co., NS. His bother Wilfred Adolphus Wyman also served during World War I enlisting on August 12, 1915. He was killed in action on November 6, 1917 at the age of 21. Maynard enlisted with the 219th Battalion and sailed for the United Kingdom on the SS Olympic on October 12, 1916 and disembarked at Liverpool on October 19, 1916. He was assigned to the 17th Reserve Battalion at Bramshott Camp and taken on strength with the 85th Battalion for service in France from June 7, 1917. He was wounded in action on January 15, 1918 and hospitalized in England. Recovering from his wounds he was assigned to the 17th Reserve Battalion and was appointed Acting Corporal on September 4, 1918 and acting Sergeant on November 9, 1918. He returned to Canada on January 31, 1919 and was discharged on February 17, 1919. Maynard Wyman married Sadie Jane (Banks) Wyman (b. 1899 in Port Lorne, NS) on June 7, 1924. He entered the United States in 1924. In 1937 he applied for US citizenship in St. Louis Missouri. The family with two children was living in Websters Grove, Missouri from 1929. Elizabeth was born on September 20, 1926 and William Maynard was born April 6, 1928. Maynard was employed as an electrical engineer.

Maynard Wyman (1937)