LEST WE FORGET 263 NANDINE, Dow George WWII George joined the Canadian Army as a sapper and passed away in 1971. NELHAM, James John Alfred WWI James was born on October 18, 1896, in Cheswick, London to Stephen William and Laura Mary Frances (Lovel) Nelham. He was the youngest of twelve children (eight of whom survived past infancy). By the time he was ten years old, both his parents had died. James ended up in the Bisley Farm Refuge School for Orphaned Children. In 1911, he was sent to Canada as a “Home Child” and placed on a farm. He was farming when he enlisted in Moosomin on December 19, 1914 with the 10th CMR. James was sent to France in September 1916 with the 27th Canadian Infantry. He was awarded a Good Conduct Badge in February 1917. He was in hospital with Trench Fever in March 1917 at Treport Hospital. In November 1917, he was wounded with a gunshot wound to the left leg. He was hospitalized in Etaples and was dangerously ill so the left leg was amputated. He was invalided back to Canada in June 1918 and was fitted with an artificial leg in Toronto. James married Helen Louise Steane in Toronto in 1920 and Jim’s occupation was “Civil Service”. In 1921, he was working as a night watchman for the railway. James and Helen had two sons, Roy William and James “Jimmy”. Jimmy died of heart failure at two years of age. Lance Corporal Nelham passed away on November 16, 1971 and is buried at Prospect Cemetery with his wife and young son. One military website (Lives of First World War) shows four Nelham siblings in World War I: Henry J. with the Bombardier Brigade – Royal Horse Artillery; Dorothy with Worker, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corp; William Riley (born 1885) – Killed in action in 1915, British Army Driver, Royal Horse Artillery; and James John Alfred Nelham with CEF.
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