Private Nazaire Kelley

Baptized Joseph-Jacques-Onésime-Nazaire Kelley. Son of Alfred Kelley (deceased in 1911), of Causapscal, and Virginie Ouellet (remarried in 1912 to Samuel Ouellet), of St-Louis-de-Courville, Montmorency, Québec. He stated being born in 1896 when he enlisted.

He enlisted for the first time on May 3, 1916, in the 189th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, service number 684399, and stated that he had served for seven months in the 9th Régiment des Voltigeurs de Québec. He enlisted a second time on July 15, 1916, at Camp Valcartier, located north of Quebec City, service number 889590. He sailed for Great Britain on September 23, 1916, and arrived in Liverpool, England, on October 6. Upon his arrival, he was assigned to the 69th Reserve Battalion, Company A. On January 4, 1917, he transferred to the 10th Reserve Battalion, and on April 17, 1917, he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion. He left for France on the 18th. On June 26, he was seconded to the 2nd Canadian Entrenchment Battalion. At Passchendaele, Belgium, on November 16, 1917, he deliberately wounded his right hand. Evacuated to England on the 21st, he was temporarily assigned to the 10th Reserve Battalion on July 11, 1918, and on the 13th, to the 22nd Battalion. He returned to the front lines on the 17th. On August 16, 1918, during the Battle of Amiens on the Somme, he was wounded by a bullet in the arm.

Evacuated to England on August 18, 1918 to receive treatment for an arm injury, he contracted the Spanish flu while recovering. He was rushed to No. 12 Canadian General Hospital in Bramshott, where he died four days later, on October 18, 1918, at 9 h 30 am, of pneumonia caused by the illness.