JAMES+OLIVER

Oliver, James, Private, 931564, 54th Battalion, Canadian Infantry Born Nelson, British Columbia, Canada Enlisted Greenwood, British Columbia, Canada Resided Greenwood Killed in action 9th April 1917 aged 19 Son of Sidney and Sophia E. Oliver, of Trail, British Columbia. Buried in Bois Carre British Cemetery, Thelus, V, B, 14

Canadian Army Service records information: James was born in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, on the 28th October 1897. He enlisted in Greenwood, British Columbia, 1st June 1916, stating his occupation as a horseman, and his next of kin as his mother, Sophia Oliver, of Greenwood, British Columbia. He was five feet nine and three quarter inches in height, had a medium complexion, brown eyes and dark brown hair, and belonged to the Church of England. He had a linear scar on the outside of his left thigh.


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