WWI ATTESTATION PAPERS
Name: ADAMS, WARD
Regimental Number: 712022
Date of Birth: 06/05/1893
Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 37 - 1
Item Number: 1927
Record Group: Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)
Father - Jas ADAMS
Butcher
Height - 5 foot 7 inches
Complexion - dark. Eyes - brown. Hair - brown
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Alberta Death Register #406-571 (1936)
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Children of James [Jim] and Flora (MacPherson) ADAMS, the first four born at Elmsdale, Lot 4, P.E.I., and the last four born at Unionvale, Lot 6, P.E.I.:
v. WARD BEECHER ADAMS, b. 6 May 1891, was fatally burned in an accidental barn fire at Claresholm, Alta., where he died in hospital a few hours later on 12 Oct. 1936. Ward was staying in the barn while he worked at the owner's place, and it is said that his smoking got the hay on fire, and soon there was a roaring inferno. Ward was buried in Claresholm Cemetery where there is a fine military monument to his memory.
Ward, who was never married, was a veteran of World War I, serving for almost four years in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Canada, Britain, Belgium, and France, receiving the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. Following his discharge, he went to stay with his brother, Gordon, at Forest View, Lot 7, P.E.I., but left the Island soon after following an argument with Gordon who wanted Ward to stop keeping company with,Gordon's wife's foster sister.
No one knows for sure where he went or what he did after that. Everyone assumed he had died long ago. The years passed, and after making inquiries I learned in 1971 that he had tragically d. in 1936, no one in Alberta knowing who his relatives were or how to notify them.
The Claresholm Local Press, Claresholm, Alta., of 9 Oct. 1936, reported the fire and said that Ward was a
transient of no fixed abode, and had been working there casually as a plasterer's helper. In their issue of 16 Oct. 1936, besides announcing his death, the newspaper reported receiving disturbing information that Ward was a drug addict and a dangerous man, having been an associate of the late and notorious bank robber, Red Ryan, who was shot to death in Sarnia, Ont., a few months previously.
Although he served Canada honourably in the Great War, Ward was not mentioned in the section on veterans in the book, Threads of the Past: A. History of O'Leary, Prince Edward Island, 1837-1992.
Name: ADAMS, WARD
Regimental Number: 712022
Date of Birth: 06/05/1893
Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 37 - 1
Item Number: 1927
Record Group: Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)
Father - Jas ADAMS
Butcher
Height - 5 foot 7 inches
Complexion - dark. Eyes - brown. Hair - brown
===
Alberta Death Register #406-571 (1936)
===
=====
Children of James [Jim] and Flora (MacPherson) ADAMS, the first four born at Elmsdale, Lot 4, P.E.I., and the last four born at Unionvale, Lot 6, P.E.I.:
v. WARD BEECHER ADAMS, b. 6 May 1891, was fatally burned in an accidental barn fire at Claresholm, Alta., where he died in hospital a few hours later on 12 Oct. 1936. Ward was staying in the barn while he worked at the owner's place, and it is said that his smoking got the hay on fire, and soon there was a roaring inferno. Ward was buried in Claresholm Cemetery where there is a fine military monument to his memory.
Ward, who was never married, was a veteran of World War I, serving for almost four years in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Canada, Britain, Belgium, and France, receiving the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. Following his discharge, he went to stay with his brother, Gordon, at Forest View, Lot 7, P.E.I., but left the Island soon after following an argument with Gordon who wanted Ward to stop keeping company with,Gordon's wife's foster sister.
No one knows for sure where he went or what he did after that. Everyone assumed he had died long ago. The years passed, and after making inquiries I learned in 1971 that he had tragically d. in 1936, no one in Alberta knowing who his relatives were or how to notify them.
The Claresholm Local Press, Claresholm, Alta., of 9 Oct. 1936, reported the fire and said that Ward was a
transient of no fixed abode, and had been working there casually as a plasterer's helper. In their issue of 16 Oct. 1936, besides announcing his death, the newspaper reported receiving disturbing information that Ward was a drug addict and a dangerous man, having been an associate of the late and notorious bank robber, Red Ryan, who was shot to death in Sarnia, Ont., a few months previously.
Although he served Canada honourably in the Great War, Ward was not mentioned in the section on veterans in the book, Threads of the Past: A. History of O'Leary, Prince Edward Island, 1837-1992.
WWI ATTESTATION PAPERS
Name: ADAMS, WARD
Regimental Number: 712022
Date of Birth: 06/05/1893
Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 37 - 1
Item Number: 1927
Record Group: Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)
Father - Jas ADAMS
Butcher
Height - 5 foot 7 inches
Complexion - dark. Eyes - brown. Hair - brown
===
Alberta Death Register #406-571 (1936)
===
=====
Children of James [Jim] and Flora (MacPherson) ADAMS, the first four born at Elmsdale, Lot 4, P.E.I., and the last four born at Unionvale, Lot 6, P.E.I.:
v. WARD BEECHER ADAMS, b. 6 May 1891, was fatally burned in an accidental barn fire at Claresholm, Alta., where he died in hospital a few hours later on 12 Oct. 1936. Ward was staying in the barn while he worked at the owner's place, and it is said that his smoking got the hay on fire, and soon there was a roaring inferno. Ward was buried in Claresholm Cemetery where there is a fine military monument to his memory.
Ward, who was never married, was a veteran of World War I, serving for almost four years in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Canada, Britain, Belgium, and France, receiving the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. Following his discharge, he went to stay with his brother, Gordon, at Forest View, Lot 7, P.E.I., but left the Island soon after following an argument with Gordon who wanted Ward to stop keeping company with,Gordon's wife's foster sister.
No one knows for sure where he went or what he did after that. Everyone assumed he had died long ago. The years passed, and after making inquiries I learned in 1971 that he had tragically d. in 1936, no one in Alberta knowing who his relatives were or how to notify them.
The Claresholm Local Press, Claresholm, Alta., of 9 Oct. 1936, reported the fire and said that Ward was a
transient of no fixed abode, and had been working there casually as a plasterer's helper. In their issue of 16 Oct. 1936, besides announcing his death, the newspaper reported receiving disturbing information that Ward was a drug addict and a dangerous man, having been an associate of the late and notorious bank robber, Red Ryan, who was shot to death in Sarnia, Ont., a few months previously.
Although he served Canada honourably in the Great War, Ward was not mentioned in the section on veterans in the book, Threads of the Past: A. History of O'Leary, Prince Edward Island, 1837-1992.
Name: ADAMS, WARD
Regimental Number: 712022
Date of Birth: 06/05/1893
Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 37 - 1
Item Number: 1927
Record Group: Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)
Father - Jas ADAMS
Butcher
Height - 5 foot 7 inches
Complexion - dark. Eyes - brown. Hair - brown
===
Alberta Death Register #406-571 (1936)
===
=====
Children of James [Jim] and Flora (MacPherson) ADAMS, the first four born at Elmsdale, Lot 4, P.E.I., and the last four born at Unionvale, Lot 6, P.E.I.:
v. WARD BEECHER ADAMS, b. 6 May 1891, was fatally burned in an accidental barn fire at Claresholm, Alta., where he died in hospital a few hours later on 12 Oct. 1936. Ward was staying in the barn while he worked at the owner's place, and it is said that his smoking got the hay on fire, and soon there was a roaring inferno. Ward was buried in Claresholm Cemetery where there is a fine military monument to his memory.
Ward, who was never married, was a veteran of World War I, serving for almost four years in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Canada, Britain, Belgium, and France, receiving the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. Following his discharge, he went to stay with his brother, Gordon, at Forest View, Lot 7, P.E.I., but left the Island soon after following an argument with Gordon who wanted Ward to stop keeping company with,Gordon's wife's foster sister.
No one knows for sure where he went or what he did after that. Everyone assumed he had died long ago. The years passed, and after making inquiries I learned in 1971 that he had tragically d. in 1936, no one in Alberta knowing who his relatives were or how to notify them.
The Claresholm Local Press, Claresholm, Alta., of 9 Oct. 1936, reported the fire and said that Ward was a
transient of no fixed abode, and had been working there casually as a plasterer's helper. In their issue of 16 Oct. 1936, besides announcing his death, the newspaper reported receiving disturbing information that Ward was a drug addict and a dangerous man, having been an associate of the late and notorious bank robber, Red Ryan, who was shot to death in Sarnia, Ont., a few months previously.
Although he served Canada honourably in the Great War, Ward was not mentioned in the section on veterans in the book, Threads of the Past: A. History of O'Leary, Prince Edward Island, 1837-1992.
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712022 PTE
WARD ADAMS
CAN FORESTRY CORPS
10TH OCT 1936
REST IN PEACE
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