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Military service
Age:
25
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Division:
6th Bn.
Enlistment:
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
December 5, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. H. 11.
Additional information
Son of Walter H. J. Pym (Paymaster Capt., R.N.) and Flora of "Sherwood," Saltash, Cornwall, England.
Additional citations
Distinguished Conduct Medal
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant John Scarlett Pym
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Photo de John Scarlett Pym
Photo #221 J.S. Pym was an original member of The Royal Canadian Dragoons before commissioning into The Queen's. From "Canada Illustrated Weekley" Submitted by Thomas L. Skelding -
Coupure de presse
Newspaper clipping from Daily Telegraph of December 14, 1916. Image taken from web address of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12213995/Daily-Telegraph-December-14-1916.html -
Mémorial
Stained glass window at St Nicholas and St Faith Church, Cornwall, UK in memory of John Scarlet Pym.
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Second Lieutenant John Scarlett Pym
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant John Scarlett Pym
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant John Scarlett Pym
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Commemorated on:
Page 573 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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