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Record #11521
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: John CARLISS (1895 - 1918)


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Date of Birth
: Nov 1895

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Date of Death
: 8 Aug 1918   Notes : Killed in Action
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Warwickshire, Birmingham
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialFrance, Bouchoir
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 24 May 1907
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Carthaginian

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Agency
: Middlemore
NotesA birth registration was found for John Carliss: Year of Registration: 1895; Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep; District: Kings Norton (To 1912); County: Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire; Volume: 6c; Page: 422. Parents: John Carliss and Mary Ann Lydiate, married 1890, Prescott, Lancashire, England.

In 1907, John Carliss, 11, arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in a group of 137 Middlemore children.

On August 22, 1915, John Carliss, 20, enlisted in the Royal Canadian Regiment (Service No. 477152). He declared that he was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England; that his next of kin was his sister, Miss Mary Carliss, who resided at Hillside Boularderie, C.B, N.S.; that his date of birth was November 1, 1895; that he was a labourer; and that he was not married. He was described as 5 foot 6-1/2 inches in height; light complexion; blue eyes; brown hair. He was a member of the Protestant faith. He had a scar about 1" long on the back of his head.

Pte John Carliss lies in Bouchoir New British Cemetery, killed in action during the great Canadian offensive August 8, 1918, the 'Black Day of the German Army'. The cemetery is situated near the village of Bouchoir on the Amiens-Roye road. A fellow Boularderie soldier, also a home child, Harry James, was killed the same day fighting in the 13th Battalion.

John Carliss is one of two war dead not listed on the St James church memorial plaque but now remembered on the new Boularderie memorial monument.

The village of Bouchoir passed into German hands on 27 March 1918 but was recovered by the 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade on 9 August 1918. The New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought there from several small Commonwealth cemeteries and from the battlefields round Bouchoir and south of the village. Almost all date from March, April or August 1918 The cemetery now contains 763 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 231 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to five casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Another special memorial commemorates an airman buried in Laboissiere German Cemetery whose grave could not be found. The graves in Plots I and II are numbered consecutively from 1 to 144. Those in Plot III are numbered from 1 to 135, and the same system applies to Plot IV. Plots V and VI are numbered by rows in the usual way. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker. [CWGC] 
ContributorsCreated : 2010-04-28 11:53:58 / From original database

Last Updated : 2010-04-28 12:07:15 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
11521 CARLISS, John1895ENG, WAR, Birmingham May 1907 : Carthaginian CAN Middlemore  
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