CEFRG – Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group 1914-1919
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No.3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill) in the Great War
No.3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill) in the Great War describes the origins of the unit beginning in August 1914 with Herbert Stanley Birkett, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University. The Call to Arms (4 August 1914 – 5 May 1915) Origins of No.3 Canadian General Hospital When war declared in August, 1914,…
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Captain Alfred Clayburn Atkey in the Great War
Highest scoring two-seater pilot Top Ace of Efficiency and Effectiveness The son of Alfred and Annie Evelyn (Shaw) Atkey, Alfred Clayburn. Captain Alfred Clayburn Atkey born in Toronto, Ontario on 16 August 1894. Atkey’s family left Toronto to pioneer western Canada in 1906. From Minebow, Saskatchewan, Atkey returned to Toronto as a journalist for the Toronto…
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Captain George Fraser Kerr VC in the Great War
One of Canada’s most highly decorated soldiers, Captain George Fraser Kerr, VC, MC & Bar, MM. With no previous military experience, he enlisted as a private in the 3rd Canadian Infantry Battalion, commissioned as an officer on Dominion Day 1917, and wounded twice in action. Early Life of Fraser Kerr George Fraser Kerr is a…
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Lieutenant A Y Jackson in the Great War
Group of Seven In 1915, after the outbreak of the Great War, Private Alexander Young Jackson 457316 enlisted in the 60th Battalion, CEF and sent to Europe. Wounded in the Battle of Sanctuary Wood in June of 1916. While recovering in the hospital in Étaples in northern France, he met Lord Beaverbrook. Soon he was appointed an artist…
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Major Andrew Edward McKeever in the Great War
King of the Two-seaters Major Andrew Edward McKeever DSO, MC & Bar the second highest ranking pilot in two-seater aircraft during the Great War. Son of William McKeever and Annabelle Mary Campbell ‘Bella’ McKeever (nee Henderson); younger brother of Lieutenant (Observer) James Campbell McKeever and older brother of Sapper Charles Moffat ‘Charlie’ McKeever 2161198. Hawkeye…
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Sergeant Arthur Melvin in the Great War
On 28 March 2015, the late Richard Laughton of Malton, Ontario submitted his investigative report on Sergeant Arthur Melvin of the 31st Canadian Infantry Battalion to the CWGC. By his own admission, one of Mr Laughton’s simplest cases. Details of his findings amounted to less than one page. At the bottom of the same page,…
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Y Farm Military Cemetery in the Great War
The cemetery named after a nearby farm, called by the Army “Y” (or Wye) Farm. Y Farm Military Cemetery, Bois-Grenier, Nord, begun in March 1915 and used by units holding this sector until February 1918. The cemetery signposted on the D222, at the junction of Rue de la Guennerie. The cemetery located on a single…
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LtCol Thomas F Nangle in the Great War
This post about what Nangle accomplished with the IWGC/CWGC in the seven years following the Great War. Much of the material in the Thomas F. Nangle fonds received as part of accessions from Joseph R. Smallwood, the former Prime Minister of Newfoundland. This material sent to Smallwood by LtCol Thomas F Nangle on May 27,…
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Lieutenant Raymond Massey in the Great War
Second Lieutenant Raymond Hart Massey a member of the Canadian Officer Training Corps prior to the Great War. Massey attested into the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 8 November 1915 and left Canada on 20th November. 30th Battery The 30th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery organized in June 1915 under the command of Major Austin Bain Gillies.…
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Canadian War Memorials Exhibition in the Great War
Original cover. In January 1919, the Canadian War Memorials Exhibition opened at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England. The war had ended only eight weeks earlier, and some artists, such as Richard Jack (1866–1952), were still finishing their paintings at the academy in the days before the exhibition opened. The show travelled to the United States in…
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Private Thomas Lionel Moles in the Great War
Shot at Dawn Private Thomas Lionel Moles the son of Louisa Mudford (formerly Moles), of West Chinnock, Crewkerne, Somerset, England, and the late John Moles. Native of Brompton Ralph (a village and civil parish in the Somerset West and Taunton district of Somerset, England, about 11 miles west of Taunton). Thomas had four years of…