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Military service
Service number:
3205092
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
50th Bn.
Birth:
July 9, 1889
Hunmanby, England
Enlistment:
October 4, 1917
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
August 19, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
A. 31.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Barmby, of Thwing, Hunmanby, Yorkshire, England. He was single and employed as a labourer. Soldier Barmby was the youngest of four sons who had emigrated from Yorkshire, England at the turn of the century. He lived in the Lang district of southern Saskatchewan and was most likely a farm worker. He suffered from asthma and when drafted in 1918, he didn't think he would pass the medical exam. On that day, his respiratory tract was clear and he was accepted. He was posted to Calgary's 50th King's Own Regiment. He fought and was killed during the battle of Amiens, less than a month after arriving in France.
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Photograph of Pte Jessie Barmby taken before embarking for Overseas. -
Circumstances of Death
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bark to Bazinet. Mircoform Sequence 6; Volume Number 31829_B016716. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 150. Page 137 of 1058.
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Private Jesse Barmby
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Private Jesse Barmby
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 364 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WARVILLERS CHURCHYARD EXTENSION Somme, France
Warvillers is a village approximately 4 kilometres north of Bouchoir, a town on the main straight road from Amiens to Roye. The Churchyard is a little east of the village.
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