SOLDIER DETAILS:
Belt,
James Edwin Deuey
Lieutenant 20th Battalion (Officer)
June 28, 1916
Lijssenthoek
Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Father Rev. Belt, Grace Anglican Church Milton
Maple
Leaf Legacy Project |
Victoria Park Cenotaph
R, Laughton
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery,
Belgium
Commonwealth War Graves
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Private Belt is
commemorated on the Milton Victoria Park Cenotaph.
James
Belt
is buried in
the
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, west of Ypres, Belgium
(Grave VI. A. 41). |
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SOLDIER SUMMARY:
| Lt. James Edwin (Deuey, Devey, Dewey) Belt was the son of Rev. A. J. Belt, Rector
of the Grace Anglican Church in Milton. He is reported on the 1901
census and his family is on the 1911
census. No name correction was available from these sites.
James joined and was serving with the 20th Infantry Battalion
in when he received his first head wound on April 19,
1916. He was treated for that wound and shell shock and
rejoined his unit on May 2, 1916. Shortly thereafter he
was killed in action on June 28th, 1916. James had just
been promoted to "Temporary Captain" but that was
cancelled upon his death.
The War
Diary for June 28, 1916 reports that raiding parties were in
progress. The death of Lt. Belt is recorded
here when a shell entered the No. 1 Co. Officers dugout
during a period of heavy shelling during to holding of the Ypres
Salient. Thanks to Dion Loach from the Canadian
Expeditionary Force Study Group for his additional input
into Lieutenant Belt: War Diary 09041916,
App.
09041916, 02051916,
and 28061916. |
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The soldier pages contain information
that is available from a number of resources. The following hyperlinks
are active where the information is available:
The summary of the service is taken from
the soldier's service records, if they were available from Library and
Archives Canada. A complete copy of the service record is
available in electronic and paper format in the Alex
Cooke Memorial Archives at the Milton Historical Society.
Using that summary, combined with the key references, a summary of the
events leading up to the death of the soldier has been prepared.
The research information available is as noted on the Canadian
Expeditionary Force Study Group web site Matrix
Project as well as in the Library and Archives Canada On-Line
War Diaries.
A summary of all the soldiers is
contained on the Web Blog "Great
War Soldiers of Milton, Ontario CANADA". Please also
be sure to purchase your own copy of "Milton
Remembers World War I - The Men and Women We Never Knew" by
John Challinor II and Jim Dills, edited by Ken Lamb. |
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