On November 18th, 1918, one week after the Armistice, Private Carvery was given fourteen days F.P. No. 1 for refusing to work and using obscene language to a Warrant Officer.  Two days later, on November 20th, he was shot to death by Private Arthur Johnson.  The evidence presented at an enquiry, was that the two men had quarreled in their hut. 

 The Battalion went into ten days quarantine and proceeded to Boulogne, France on 17 May 1917 and for Jura the next morning. The railway journey took 38 hours with only one meal a day arranged by the French railway authorities. Over 230 men from the Battalion ate their iron rations, including William due to hunger. These were emergency meals that were only to be eaten on orders from an officer. They each lost five-days pay for this.

Samuel Austin Williams was one of 495 No. 2 Construction soldiers who crossed the English Channel to Havre, France, on May 17, 1917. The party , with 11officers travelled by train to France-Comte, near the Swiss border where they were assigned to No. 5 District which had established a large forestry operation  harvesting and processing timber in the Jura mountains.

Alexander Benjamin Elms and this brothers, 1917 Jura Alexander Benjamin Elms was born in Big Tracadie, Guysborough County, on March 14,...

William John Elms and brothers Jura 1917 John William Elms was born in Upper Big Tracadie, Nova Scotia, on July 22, 1888. John married...

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Arthur Johnson joined the No. 2 Construction Battalion in Windsor on July 26th, 1916.

Private Mansfield served with No.2 Construction Coy, Canadian Overseas Railway Construction Corps, attached to No. 5 Group Canadian Forestry

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PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Reece, Samuel Date of birth: 1885-04-15 Place of birth: British Guyana British Guiana Next of kin: Annie...

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