Category: Soldiers

  • Corporal Frederick Percival Bousfield in the Great War

    Corporal Frederick Percival Bousfield in the Great War

    The grave of an unknown soldier in Belgium recently identified as belonging to a Great War soldier from Winnipeg. Killed trying to bring wounded people to safety. Corporal Frederick P Bousfield of the 43rd Canadian Infantry Battalion. 3 May 2023 Staff with the Canadian Armed Forces casualty identification program confirmed the grave belongs to Cpl.…

  • Nursing Sister Gladys Maude Mary Wake in the Great War

    Nursing Sister Gladys Maude Mary Wake in the Great War

    Mount Wake named to remember Canadian Army Medical Corp Nursing Sister Gladys Maude Mary Wake, of Esquimalt, who died 21 May 1918 of wounds received 2 days earlier during the air raid on No.1 Canadian General Hospital at Etaples, France. Gladys Maude Mary Wake born 13 December 1883 at Esquimalt, graduated from Victoria’s Jubilee Hospital…

  • Private Joseph Daniels in the Great War

    Private Joseph Daniels in the Great War

    Canadian Machine Gun Corps Private Joseph Daniels, a Métis soldier, served with the 4th Canadian Machine Gun Battalion during the Battle of Amiens. Joe initially enlisted with the 194th Overseas Battalion. Following his service helps to understand the reorganizations of machine gun companies, and the creation of tank battalions in the CEF. Each infantry battalion…

  • Private Dimitro Sinicky in the Great War

    Private Dimitro Sinicky in the Great War

    Charged with Cowardice Shot at Dawn Private Dimitro Sinicky born in Kiel, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (in modern Ukraine) in 1895. Son of Harry and Efrosinia Sinicky of Kiev, Russia. Dimitro the only soldier of the CEF Shot at Dawn for cowardice in the Great War. When on active service, misbehaving before the enemy in…

  • Nursing Sister Nellie Josephine Enright RRC in the Great War

    Nursing Sister Nellie Josephine Enright RRC in the Great War

    Nellie Josephine Enright the daughter of John Charles Enright and his wife, Alice (nee McCurley) Enright in Ottawa, Ontario. She had one sister, Mrs E J McCluen, of San Leandro, California. Her birth date noted as 14 September 1882. Nellie attended St. Patrick’s School from 1888-1897, then Sacred Heart Convent in Ottawa from 1897 to…

  • Lieutenant Cameron Donald Brant in the Great War

    Lieutenant Cameron Donald Brant in the Great War

    Lieutenant Cameron Donald Brant descended from the famous Chief Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea). Great-great-great-grandson of Thayendanegea. During the first major Gas Attack of the Great War, Lt Brant also the first Canadian Indigenous Warrior of the CEF to die in battle. Tecumseh Two hundred years ago, during the American Revolution, a great chief and Indian statesman…

  • Mary Riter Hamilton in the Great War

    Mary Riter Hamilton in the Great War

    Mary Riter Hamilton produced the largest known collection of Great War art, yet she is still virtually unknown today. “I came out because I felt I must come, and if I did not come at once it would be too late.” Mary Riter Hamilton in 1922 The Canadian artist had just completed a two-and-a-half-year solo…

  • Private William Henry Lloyd Smith in the Great War

    Private William Henry Lloyd Smith in the Great War

    Private William Henry Lloyd Smith born on 10 September 1895 in Elma Township, Ontario of Henry and Bertie Smith, West Monkton, Ontario. William a mail carrier, residing at RR # 1, West Monkton, Perth County, Ontario. 110th Overseas Battalion Organized in November 1915 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel J L Youngs. Mobilized at Stratford, and…

  • Lieutenant Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey VC in the Great War

    Lieutenant Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey VC in the Great War

    Lieutenant Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey, VC, MC an Irish-born Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, Canadian soldier and rugby union player. During the Great War, while serving in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Lieutenant Frederick Harvey awarded the Victoria Cross, the Military Cross and the French Croix de Guerre. Harvey, born in Athboy, County Meath, Ireland,…

  • The Maltby Brothers in the Great War

    The Maltby Brothers in the Great War

    Three of the four Maltby Brothers served in the Great War. Reginald Arthur (Battle of Hill 70), Walter and Albert Edward Maltby (Passchendaele) died within ten weeks of each other. A devastating loss for the family, and only surviving brother Percy Maltby. Sergeant George Ernest Maltby The Maltby Brothers sons of the late Sergeant George…