Name
Stanley Jack Odlum
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/04/1917
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Canadian Infantry
"A" Company, 10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI
V. C. 28.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 22 Jun 1894 in Beverley, Yorkshire son of John Augustus and Kate Odlum later of 72 Burnbury Road, Balham. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1900-04. He worked as a gardener nurseryman in London and then emigrated to Canada on 25 Apr 1913 on the Victorian from Liverpool to Montreal and became a farmer in Saskatchewan. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
He joined up in Jan 1915 and entered France in Aug 1915. He fought at Ypres, the Somme and was killed in action in an attack south-west of Thelus during the capture of Vimy Ridge.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
