McNAMARA, Charles

War
1st World War
Date of Birth
Date Attested
Attested at
Seaforth, Ontario
Original Unit
161st Huron Battalion
Regimental Number
654499
Rank
Private
Date of Death
Age at Death
26 years 8 months
Cemetery
Seaforth St James Cemetery - Ontario - Canada
Cenotaph
Seaforth Cenotaph
Biographical Summary

DIVISIONAL UNIT:        1st Canadian Infantry Division
                                             1st Battalion
                                             Canadian Machine Gun Corps
SERVICE NO:                   654499
RESIDENCE:                    Seaforth – Ontario 
DATE OF BIRTH:            October 4, 1893
                                             Seaforth – Mckillop / Tuckersmith Township – County of Huron - Ontario
DATE OF DEATH:           July 1, 1920                         26 years     8 months
CEMETERY:                     Seaforth (St. James) Cemetery – Seaforth –
                                             Huron County - Ontario
PARENT:                           Mr. Charles McNamara – Seaforth - Ontario
Occupation:                        Labourer                               Religion:     Roman Catholic
Enlistment:                         Seaforth – February 24, 1916 – 161st Huron Battalion
Enlistment Age:                 22 years     4 months

Private McNamara departed Canada and arrived in England on November 11, 1916.
On March 7, 1918, he transferred to the Canadian Machine Gun Depot based at Seaford – Sussex.  Private McNamara then goes overseas into France on March 28th. On March 31, 1918, he transfers to the 1st Battalion Canadian Machine Gun Corps.
Private McNamara would have been involved in the fight at Avs, Battles of the Lys which included Estaires, Messines, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, First Kemel Ridge, La Becque, Amiens, Albert, Bapaume, the Scarpe, the Drocourt-Queant Line, the Hindenburg Line which included Havrincourt, Epehy, the Canal du Nord, the Battle of Ypres, the Beaurevoir Line, Cambrai, the Selle, Courtrai, Valenciennes, the Sambre then onto Mons and the end of the war.
On March 25, 1919, he goes to England and on April 26, 1918 he departs England on the Empress of England and travels to Toronto where on May 5, 1919 he is Struck of Service of His Majesty’s Service.
Upon his return home to Seaforth, he was under medical care from October 28, 1919 until July 1, 1920 at the Speedwell Hospital in Guelph where he died from the effects of Pulmonary Tuberculosis.