Tag: distinguished service order
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Major Roderick Bell-Irving DSO MC in the Great War
The Bell-Irving Family The Bell-Irving family descendants of Henry Bell-Irving, a Glasgow, Scotland, merchant. Bell-Irving resided in Milkbank, Dumfries County, and in 1851 he married Williamina McBean Irving. The couple had seven children, two of whom later established the family in Vancouver. The eldest son, Henry Ogle Bell-Irving (1856-1931) and his brother, Dr Duncan Bell-Irving,…
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Major Albert Desbrisay Carter DSO in the Great War
HE DID THAT WHICH WAS HIS DUTY TO DO Major Albert Desbrisay Carter DSO & Bar, Croix du Guerre, the only son of Leonard & Ettie (Goodwin) Carter. Albert the highest scoring ace to serve with No.19 Squadron. On 19 May 1918, captured behind enemy lines after his Sopwith Dolphin earlier shot down by Leutnant Paul Billik of Jasta…
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Major Donald Roderick MacLaren in the Great War
DSO, MC & Bar, DFC, Croix du Guerre, Légion d’honneur Major Donald Roderick MacLaren, a Scots-Canadian, born in Ottawa on 28 May 1893 to Robert James and Mary Jeanie MacLaren, and moved with his family to Calgary six years later. An expert marksman early in life, and later managed to gain a place at university.…
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Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Humphreys Webb DSO MC in the Great War
Lt-Col Ralph Humphreys Webb DSO MC served with the 1st, 3rd and 4th Canadian Divisional Trains, and then commanded the 47th Canadian Infantry Battalion. Seriously wounded on 5 June 1918, with his leg blown off by a shell. After recovery, Webb, now fitted with an artificial leg, convinced his doctor he was capable of returning…