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Military service
Service number:
1315
Age:
45
Rank:
Company Sergeant Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Enlistment:
Mound, Alberta
Death:
May 8, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
3.H.12
Additional information
Son of John Joseph and Mary Ann Dames; husband of Florence Coneybeer Dames of Alberta. Served in the Tirah Campaign, 1897-98 and with the Sherwood Foresters in the South African War (invalided through wounds)
Digital gallery of Company Sergeant Major James William Dames
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Biography
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Photo of James William Dames
The following letter was printed in the gift book, With the First Contingent, and mentions PPCLI Company Sergent Major James William Dames. This book was published in 1915 by the Canadian Field Comforts Commission at Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe. The book includes photos and letters sent from soldiers at thefront lines back to the women working at the Commission and was published to raise funds for more comforts for the men. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
Company Sergeant Major Dames was commemorated among the missing on the Menin Gate Memorial. He is buried at Hagle Dump Cemetery, in Belgium. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … Company Sergeant Major James William Dames is also commemorated on the Menin Gate, Belgium ... photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Dack to Dabate. Microform Sequence 26; Volume Number 31829_B016735. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 170. Page 243 of 1140. -
Photo of JAMES WILLIAM DAMES
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major James William Dames
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major James William Dames
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major James William Dames
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major James William Dames
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major James William Dames
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major James William Dames
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major James William Dames
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 11 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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