Category: Soldiers
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The Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) in the Great War
Creation of the WRAF The Women’s Royal Air Force created on 1 April 1918. 32,000 WRAFs proved a major asset to the RAF. Providing mechanics and skilled workers to ensure more RAF pilots saw front line service in the Great War. Essentially, the WRAF became the backbone of the Royal Air Force (RAF), also created…
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Sergeant Frank Stanley Cox DCM in the Great War
Sergeant Frank Stanley Cox 21452 born 16 April 1892 in Wormley, Staffordshire, England. He was a Steam Engineer. Attested 30 August 1914 at Valcartier, Quebec. He stood 6′ tall, 170 pounds, with fair complexion, brown eyes and black hair. Scar on right forehead, under right eye, civil appendectomy scar. With 105th Regiment (Saskatoon Fusiliers). The Saskatoon…
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The Groseth Cousins in the Great War
The Groseth cousins, Jorgen and Erick, one a son of Johan Eriksen Groseth and Karen Erickson, of Sandviken, Kristiania (Christiania), Norway. 5th Canadian Infantry Battalion casualties, less than a month apart during Canada’s Last Hundred Days in the Great War. Johan and Karen had two other sons, Ernest and Anton K. Groseth, who had also…
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Lieutenant Colonel Dick Worrall in the Great War
Lt.-Col. Richard “Dick” Worrall, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar Honi soit qui mal y pense Sergeant Richard Worrall steadily rose through the ranks to become Lieutenant Colonel Dick Worrall, commander of The Royal Montreal Regiment, 14th Canadian Infantry Battalion in the Great War. Triumphantly greeted by General Hubert Plumer on the west bank of…
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Captain David McAndie MC DCM MM in the Great War
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them – William Shakespeare Captain David McAndie one of the most decorated, and uniquely-medaled soldiers, of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) in the Great War. In addition, no other CEF soldier earned the Military Cross (MC), the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM), the…
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Gunner Bertram Howard Cox in the Great War
60th Field Battery, 14th Brigade, 5th Canadian Divisional Artillery “Oh, how we’ll appreciate freedom and liberty, if we ever get out of this thing.” Gunner Bertram Howard Cox a positive force always looking for the beautiful things in life and the best side of people he met. He loved children and held his friends and…
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Private George William Cook MM and Bar in the Great War
GONE TO HIS ETERNAL REWARD Private George William Cook born 8 August 1895 to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ross Cook, of Simcoe, Ontario; husband of Florence Margaret ‘Maggie’ Croshaw Boaprey (formerly Cook), of Kingston, Ontario, formerly of 24 York Street, Hamilton, Ontario. Cook, was a cook by trade. Although he would command a machine-gun in…
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Captain John MacGregor Victoria Cross in the Great War
Captain John MacGregor, VC, MC and Bar, DCM, ED, spent his post-war years avoiding the fame that comes with a Victoria Cross. Ordered to accept the VC, as a very shy man, ‘Jock’ felt he was only doing his duty. His son, James A. Macgregor continued in his footsteps in the Second World War. A…
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Lt.-Col. Frederick Minden Cole DSO in the Great War
A Good Soldier of Jesus Christ Lt.-Col. Frederick Minden Cole DSO born 1 August 1859. The eldest son of the late Major Frederick Cole, and Louisa Purkis (Barrett) Cole, of 23, Essex Avenue, Montreal. Husband of Florence Trenholme Cole, of 15, Holton Avenue, Westmount, P.Q. Twice Mentioned in Dispatches, and awarded the Distinguished Service Order…
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Private Normand F. Weller, C.A.V.C. in the Great War
Private Normand Weller initially served 17 months in France with the Canadian Field Artillery. Then, worn-out from his service on the Western Front, and admitted to hospital with Pleurisy in January 1917. Following seven weeks in hospital, Normand served the remainder of the Great War with the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps. Normand born 23 September…