The First World War
Officers of The Royal Canadian Regiment

Brevet Major Josiah Sherlock Marrington Arthur Haigh Lyne-Evans

Soldiers of the First World War database entry - J.S.M.A.H. Lyne-Evans

Capt. J.S.M.A.H. Lyne-Evans (1912)

Capt. J.S.M.A.H. Lyne-Evans, Valcartier Camp, 1912

Capt. J.S.M.A.H. Lyne-Evans (1920)

Capt. J.S.M.A.H. Lyne-Evans, Valcartier Camp, 1920

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Canada's Historic Places - Carwarden

In 1910, Josiah Sherlocke Warrington (sic) Arthur Haigh Lyne-Evans engaged Leslie Fairn, then a local architect in Kings County, to design Carwarden. . . . Lyne-Evans was born in Haycock Parish, Lancashire, England and came to Nova Scotia around 1906, after leaving the army. He was a Second Lieutenant with the 17th Lancers. Around the time he came to Nova Scotia he married Florence Caroline. It is not sure whether they married in Britain or Canada, as there is no record of their marriage here. It is, however, almost certain that either Lyne-Evans or his wife came into money that paid for Carwarden, for it proved to be an expensive undertaking. Lyne-Evans paid $10,000 for 100 acres of farmland and another fourteen acres of dykeland.

Lyne-Evans decided to become a gentleman farmer in Kings County. Apparently though his money proved insufficient for this choice of lifestyle because in 1912, Lyne-Evans sold a half interest in the property for $1.00 to Stephen Henry Morris of HMCS Niobe, stationed in Halifax. In the arrangement, the Lyne-Evanses kept Carwarden.

In 1912, Lyne-Evans was also commissioned as an officer in the Royal Canadian Regiment, then stationed at the Halifax Citadel. He boarded at the Citadel's barracks until the outbreak of the First World War, when he was sent to France. By 1915 he commanded the 23rd Infantry Battalion and was wounded at the Second Battle of Ypres. He later suffered from shell shock and in 1917 he had to take sick leave because of a recurrence of trench fever. In 1919 he returned to Nova Scotia and two years later transferred to the reserves.

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