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I am presently looking for any relatives of James Stoddart, born July 19th, 1898, in Glasgow, Scotland.
In 1908, at the age of 10, he came to Canada by himself as a Quarrier's Boy and therefore he would originally have come to the Fairnowe Home in Brockville. From there he went to Croydon, Ontario where he stayed on the Samuel Doupe farm. He later worked as a farm labourer on James Leslie Keller's farm near Croydon.
On January 29th, 1916 he joined the 146th Overseas Battalion and then transferred to the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles. He sailed from Halifax on the SS Southland September 29th, 1916. He was killed in action April 9th, 1917 at Vimy Ridge.
At the age of 17, he was 5 foot 4 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes and brown hair. He is on Page 333 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
I have inherited a handful of pictures that he left at the farm where he worked at Croydon. Should anybody recognize this individual as a relative, please let me know and I can send either the pictures to you or high quality scans. He is known to have at least two sisters, Alice & Ella Stoddart. Medals and Decorations were sent to a sister, Mrs. D. Wilson, (I think Ella), Watsonfoot Cottage, Morningside, Newmains, Lanarkshire, Scotland on the July 19th, 1921. I have posted the pictures at this location:
http://home.primus.ca/~jgkeller/stoddart1.html
Thanks
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