John Joseph Jardine (1877 - 1915)

Born 13 Mar 1877 in Chatham, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada

Died 24 Mar 1915 at age 38 in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium

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Biography

John Joseph was born in Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1877, the son of Eugene Jardine.

He married widow Ella M. (Graham) Haley, sometime after 1910. They had a daughter Dorothy Fay, who was born in 1914.

He served in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War and for several years worked as a boilermaker at the Charlestown Navy Yard.

In 1914, he left his home in Somerville to visit his birthplace at Chatham, New Brunswick, where he was swept up with talk of the war and ended up enlisting, along with his only brother Michael, an innkeeper at Chatham. ^[1] He was deployed to England with the first Canadian contingent as a member of Co. H, 12th Battalion, 4th Brigade. ^[2]

He was killed in action at Ypres, Belgium, on March 24, 1915. He was 45 years old. He is buried at the Voormezeele Cemetery Enclosure #03 in Ypres, Belgium.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Killed in Trenches", Boston Daily Globe, 12 April 1915, p. 1
2. ↑ Report of the Commission on Massachusetts' Part in the World War", by Eben Putnam, 1928, Vol. 2, p. 348
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #12114930 Voormezeele Cemetery Enclosure #03, Ypres, Belgium