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Military service
Service number:
808483
Age:
38
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Division:
50th Bn.
Birth:
January 2, 1879
Death:
August 23, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. E. 5.
Additional information
Son of David and Ann Sinclair, of Breck, Stenness, Orkney, Scotland.
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Coupre de presse
Oldest son of David and Ann Sinclair, of Breck, Stenness, Orkney, Scotland. Gave his date of birth as 2nd January 1879 when attested in Calgary on 8th February 1916, but official birth record in Holm, Orkney date of 2nd January 1878. Travelled out to Canada with younger brothers David and Robert on steamship Tunisian of the Allan Line in 1904, leaving Liverpool on 14th April bound for Halifax. James had served a year in 15th Alberta Light Horse before he joined up. Robert returned to Orkney and set up successful business there called Sinclair Supply Stores (in the two main towns, Kirkwall and Stromness). -
Autre
Digital download of his service record from Library & Archives Canada shows Battalion at death was 50th
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Private James Sinclair
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Private James Sinclair
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 326 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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