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Private James Stanley Mowatt

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth: 1895-02-14
Place of birth: Applehill Ontario Canada
Next of kin: James Mowatt (father,) Carlyle, Saskatchewan
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Farming
Occupation (normalized): General Farmer
Address: Carlyle, Saskatchewan
Religion: Presbyterian
Date of death: 1918-09-28
Cause of death: Killed in action
Buried: Haynecourt British Cemetery, I. D. II.

MILITARY INFORMATION

Regimental number: 1009164
Highest Rank: Private (46th Battalion)
Rank detail
  1. Private, 46th Battalion, Infantry (Army).
  2. Private (Army). 1916-03-22 ?
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: While advancing with his battalion in an attack east of Haynecourt, he was hit in the side by a machine gun bullet and instantly killed
Commemoration location: Carlyle, Saskatchewan War Memorial

RESEARCH INFORMATION

CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try this.
CWGC ID: 522379
LAC ID: 178939
Attestation record(s): image 1, image 2
Service file: B6451-S038
Uploader's Notes:

He is mentioned in the Jim Mowatt family history on page 864 of Prairie Trails to Blacktop, 1882-1982.

Brother of Bill Mowatt (not yet identified in LAC)

Uploader's Research notes:

Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial

Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948” database

[Private Army Canadian Infantry 229th Battalion Private Army Canadian Infantry 46th Battalion ]

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-09-01