Private William Jarman: Waterloo Region Generations

Generation: 1

Private William Jarman was born Jul 1897, , England; died 8 Aug 1918, , France; was buried , Vimy Memorial, , Pas De Calais, France.

Other Events:

Military: WW1
Residence: , England
Residence: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
Eby ID Number: Waterloo-225584
Immigration: 1911, , Canada
Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Private, 111th Battalion
Misfortune: 1918; killed in war

Notes:

Son of Edwin and Annie Jarman, of 102, Cliftonvale Arcade, Highland Park, London, Ontario. Service Number: 730142 Age: 19 Force: Army Unit: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment) Division: 4th Bn.

William Thomas Jarman - The Canadian Virtual War Memorial - Veterans Affairs Canada. (2016). Veterans.gc.ca. Retrieved 23 May 2016, from https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1569708?William%20Thomas%20Jarman

Military:
Jarman, William Thomas Private. Enlisted with the 111th Battalion of South Waterloo December 3, 1915 and after serving in France for nearly a year, he was killed in action at the age of nineteen on August 8, 1918. He was the son of Mr. Edwin A. Jarman, Hespeler, Ontario. He was born in England.^1a

^1aJarman, William Thomas: Grace Schmidt Room Digital Collection. (2016). Vitacollections.ca. Retrieved 23 May 2016, from https://vitacollections.ca/kpl-gsr/2842562/data?n=1

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English-born William Jarman left his Hespeler home to enlist in 1915. He had a job in a textile factory and wrote a will leaving all to his mother Annie.

Jarman was part of a crew firing a Lewis machine gun. It was a fearsome, gas-operated weapon that could fire up to 600 rounds a minute. A bullet from an enemy machine gun killed him at Amiens. He was 21.

Outhit, J. (2018). At last, the end of the war was in sight. TheRecord.com. Retrieved 8 August 2018, from https://www.therecord.com/news-story/8805694-at-last-the-end-of-the-war-was-in-sight/