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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Land Newfoundland
• Last residence Hant's Harbour, Newfoundland
• Family Son of James W. and Jane Ann Janes, of Hant's Harbour Trinity Bay, Newfoundland.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment December 1914
• Service number 702
• Rank Company Serjeant Major
• Medals D C M
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. Royal Newfoundland Regiment
• Other data related to military career to France on 19 September 1915; Gallipoli campaign; wounded July 1916; back to his battalion October 1917; DCM March 1918 for "conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He was one of the first to cross a bridge when a temporary check occurred owing to enfilade and machine gun fire a short range. He organized the attack an led the men forward”;

Death

• Wounded 13 April
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds chest in n°2 Can. CCS
• Died at the age of 27
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - F - 4

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