VETERANS’ SERVICE RECOGNITION BOOK – VOLUME 16 / 19 THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND COMMAND BEAIRSTO, Samuel WWI Samuel was born in Woodville, Prince Edward Island in 1890. He enlisted in the Army in Charlottetown on April 19, 1915, had basic training in Sussex, NB and departed Halifax for England on June 15, 1915 and arrived in England ten days later aboard the SS Caledonia. After further training in England he disembarked in Boulogne, France on September 15, 1916. Samuel fought in the battles of Ypres in 1915, St. Eloi in 1915, the Somme in 1916 and Vimy in 1917. He was appointed as an Armourer on December 1, 1916 and graded for purpose of pay only as a Regimental Corporal. On January 16, 1917 he was sent to the #5 Canadian Field Ambulance with a contusion Back W caused from shrapnel then transferred to the 3rd Canadian Field Ambulance on January 17, 1917 and returned to duty on January 24. On the first day of the Vimy battle on April 9, 1917, Samuel was killed in action in the field. In the two years that he served with the CEF he only took ten days furlough which he had spent in London. The Memorial Cross was awarded to his mother, Isabelle, on August 24, 1921. BARTLETT, George Ashley WWII George was born on June 3, 1918 in Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec to Walter and Annie Bartlett. He enlisted in the Army on June 19, 1940 in Charlottetown joining the North Nova Scotia Highlanders. He married Leah Jean Campbell in Amherst, Nova Scotia and followed with a son just prior to his deployment overseas. On July 18, 1941 he left Halifax on the SS Orion arriving in England on July 31, 1941. Here he would do more training and which also would see him advance to the rank of Lance Sergeant. On June 3, 1944 he was on his way to France arriving on the beaches on June 6, 1944, D-Day. During Operation Tractable which was fought between 14 to 21 August at Falaise Ridge, he received wounds and the following day succumbed to these wounds. He is buried in Bayeux War Cemetery in Calvados, France. Also, a headstone is in place in Searletown, PEI, along with Lt. James Arthur Affleck. Can you identify this Unknown Soldier of The Great War? This photo was found in an Estate Auction, with no written record of the source of the photo. The only identifier on the photo is handwritten in pencil, August 21, 1918, Charlottetown, but the name is illegible. Please contact the PEI Command Office at 902-892-2161 if you have any information that may help identify this solider, so that this Veteran of The Great War can be recognized in a future edition of the Veterans’ Service Recognition Book. LEST WE FORGET
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