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| Name - Last Name First | Wyatt, James William Harold |
| Birth Date- day/month/year // Parents if known | 8 Jul 1908 |
| Distinctions | Brother in Service: Frederick John Wyatt (Death Due to Service) |
| Birth Place | Hove, Sussex, England |
| Home Child Sending Organization | Barnardo's Homes |
| Year / Age Arrived in Canada as BHC | 1922 - 14 yrs |
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| War(s) Served USE: WW1 or WW2 | WW2 |
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| Date of Enlistment / Apparent Age / Real Age | 1941 |
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| Final Rank / Battalion / Unit | Gunner, Royal Canadian Army |
| Killed in Action - Battle / Death Due to Service / Survived | Survived |
| Date of Death/ location / Cause | 24 Sep 1972 |
| Age at Death | 64 |
| Place of Burial | Ontario Pine Grove Cemetery, Prince Albert (near Port Perry), Ontario |
Notes
BHC Registry ID No.
18683
James William Harold Wyatt was born on July 8, 1908 in Hove, Sussex, England. He was the son of James Wyatt and Annie Louisa Jestico, who had been married at Hove in 1905. At the time of the 1911 England Census, James' father James Wyatt Sr. was working as a boatman and living at 18 Sussex Road, Hove with his 5-year-old daughter Lillian. Frederick's mother, Annie Louisa Wyatt, was listed as a lodger along with their 3-year-old son James in the household of Percy James Walker in Hove. The census indicates she was married and working as a laundress. Brother Frederick John Wyatt was born later that census year, and a younger sister Lucy was born in 1916. Frederick's father, James, died in 1921, and his mother Annie remarried to William J. Lambkin in 1926.
On September 14, 1922, James Wyatt departed for Canada with a party of children from Dr. Barnardo's Homes, arriving aboard the S.S. Minnedosa on September 22, 1922. James's younger brother, Frederick John Wyatt (BHC Registry ID# 63039) was sent to Canada with the Church of England Waifs & Strays Society in 1926.
James' brother, Frederick John Wyatt, also served in WW2, enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force on June 12, 1940. It is unknown if the two brothers ever reconnected in Canada. Sadly, Frederick was accidentally killed on June 9, 1944 when his aircraft crashed into Ucluelet Inlet on Vancouver Island while returning from sea patrol.
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