Category: Soldiers
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Lieutenant-Colonel Roland Playfair Campbell in the Great War
Lt-Col Roland Playfair Campbell, son of the Rev. John Campbell (biography below) and Mrs. M. H. Campbell, of Montreal, Quebec., was born 8 July 1876 in Montreal. No. 1 Canadian General Hospital Roland Playfair Campbell enlisted 23 September 1914, Ville-de-Quebec, Québec, at 39 years of age, certified by Major K.P. Campbell (perhaps his brother) of…
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Lieutenant-Colonel William Hew Clark-Kennedy VC in the Great War
William Hew Clark-Kennedy VC DSO CMC joined the 13th (Royal Highlanders of Canada) Battalion in 1914. During the Great War rose to command the 24th Infantry Battalion, CEF. Lieutenant-Colonel Clark-Kennedy four times mentioned in dispatches, and in addition received the Distinguished Service Order and bar. Furthermore, made a Companion of the Order of St Michael…
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Lance Corporal Alexander Fairweather Bunch in the Great War
L/Cpl Alexander Fairweather Bunch 532735 was born 30 November 1876 in Dundee, Scotland. He immigrated from Scotland to Canada with his wife Annie and 4 young children, circa 1904. He was a carpenter for a coal company. Alexander served with No. 13 Canadian Field Ambulance, C.A.M.C. Killed-inActio in the town of Vis-en-Artois. It was the…
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Nursing Sister Mary Lillian Cameron in the Great War
Early Life Lieutenant Mary Lillian Cameron born 8 December 1894 in Canso, Nova Scotia to Laura and Frederick A. Cameron. Mary enlisted 22 May 1917 at Montreal with Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC). Her unit being No.4 General Hospital (University of Toronto). Mary Lillian single. The oldest of three children. Her father operated a general store in the small fishing port.…
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Private Manuel Bermudez in the Great War
A son of Venezuela who fought, and died for God’s justice on earth. The only son of Venezuela who fought, and died for Canada in the Great War. Private Manuel Bermudez Private Manuel Bermudez 919831, son of Manuel Bermudez Lecuna, and his wife, Carlota Valdez de Bermudez, 33/3 Punceres a Plaza Lopez, Caracas, Venezuela. Manuel…
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The Cameron Brothers in the Great War
The Cameron Brothers of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, in the Great War. Lieutenant John Angus Cameron DSO, and Sergeant Alexander Cameron MM. Both of the Cameron Brothers medalled. Johan Angus received his DSO at Buckingham Palace, while younger brother Alexander’s Military Medal, was awarded posthumously. Sergeant Alexander Cameron MM The younger of the Cameron brothers…
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Sir Frederick Oscar Warren Loomis in the Great War
LOOMIS, Sir FREDERICK OSCAR WARREN, KCB CMG DSO, businessman, militia and army officer, was born 1 February 1870 in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Son of Daniel Gordon Loomis and Amelia Hall Burrowes. Married in 1894 to Margaret Morrison Mundell in Springfield, Mass. They had five sons and two daughters. Major General Frederick Loomis died 15 February 1937 in Montreal. Early…
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Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow MM & two Bars in the Great War
Introduction Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow 6846 one of the most highly decorated Indigenous soldiers of the Great War. An Ojibwa from the Perry Island Band in Ontario, awarded the Military Medal plus two bars for acts of bravery in Belgium and France. Pegahmagabow one of only 39 members of the CEF who received two bars in…
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Private Clifford Moss MM in the Great War
Private Clifford Moss MM 477609 was born in Yorkshire, England on 1 January 1894. His widowed mother is Mrs. Maud Ross, of 52 Lillian Street, Wolsely Road, Leeds, England. She is now living in Belwood, Ontario. His sister Mrs. W.G. Campbell also resides in Belwood. Clifford is a Farmer. Clifford enlists on 23 April 1915,…
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Bishop Michael Francis Fallon in the Great War
Before the Great War, Michael Francis Fallon 1613 was a member of the Non-Permanent Active Militia. Michael Francis Fallon was the first-born of Dominic Fallon and Bridget Egan Fallon. They had immigrated from Ireland to settle in Kingston, Canada West. Roman Catholic Bishop Michael Francis Fallon, was born at Kingston, on 17 May 1867. Fallon…