Category: Soldiers
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Private Jacob Isaac in the Great War
Private Jacob Isaac of the Six Nations Reserve 739554 was born on 3 December 1893. He was the son of Silas and Lucy Isaac, Ohsweken, Tuscarora Township, Ontario. Jacob enlisted on 29 November 1915, with the 114th (Haldimand) Battalion. Also known as “Brock’s Rangers.” Recruited in Haldimand County, and on the Six Nations Reserve. Almost…
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Bombardier Robert Elmer Adams in the Great War
Bombardier Robert Elmer Adams 7721, is born on 18 February 1885, in Durham, Ontario. Son of Thomas and Maria Adams, of Pontypool, Ontario. He is a Brakeman. Began his service by attesting 5 February 1915, in Toronto. Firstly, joins the 7th Canadian Mounted Rifles. Robert stood 5’10” tall. He has fair complexion. Robert also has…
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Signaller Guy Wray Garrett in the Great War
Signaller Guy Wray Garrett 678042 was born 5 November 1894 in Toronto. He resided at 264 Clifton Street, Toronto. Guy was a Hardware merchant, working for his father. Parents George and Alice Garrett resided at 582 College Street, Toronto. During his training in England, he will marry Ethel, of 63 Knatts Green Road, Leyton East,…
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Lieutenant Raymond Collishaw in the Great War
Lieutenant Raymond Collishaw joined the Royal Naval Air Service (R.N.A.S.) in January 1916. He began as a probationary Flight Sub-Lieutenant, and eventually commands the famous Black Flight (No.3 Squadron, R.N.A.S.). Raymond Collishaw was the first pilot to claim six victories in one day. He was the highest scoring ace of the R.N.A.S. to fly the…
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Capitaine Joseph Henri Chaballe in the Great War
Capitaine Joseph Henri Chaballe was born in Belgium and served with the 22nd (French Canadian) Battalion in the Great War. Chaballe rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel with the battalion commonly referred to as the “Van Doos” (from vingt-deux, meaning twenty-two in French). Joseph’s ‘D’ Company captured the village of Courcelette during the Battle of…
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Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen in the Great War
The Greatest Aviator that ever lived. Since the dawn of aviation in 1903. Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen. While alive, he zigzagged his way over the skies of the Western Front. Then, encountered a fatal bullet over Vaux-sur-Somme. After his death, he zigzagged his way beneath the ground. Until, he found his ultimate, and…
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Lieutenant William Rider Rider in the Great War
Honourary Lieutenant William Rider Rider the third, and final official Canadian War Photographer of the Great War. Many sources incorrectly refer to Rider being wounded during the Great War. No such thing occurred, though he did put himself in the position to have been wounded on many occasions. The so-called wounding, actually an indiscretion for…
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Major John Pollands Girvan in the Great War
John Pollands Girvan 27071 was born 28 November 1887 in Kingarth, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. He belonged to an active militia when he attested on 14 September 1914 at Valcartier, Quebec. His next-of-kin was his sister, Joan M. Girvan. John stood 6′ tall, with fresh complexion, blue eyes and fair hair. In 1907, he became…
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Private John James Willoughby in the Great War
Though not one of CEFRG’s current cases, the case of Private John James Willoughby provides important background in identifying and recovering The Missing for the group. Willoughby’s remains were discovered by Jean Paul Brunel, of France, in 1986, and he did so much more than assure a Canadian Hero was given the burial he deserved.…
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Captain Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson VC, MC, in the Great War
Captain Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson was a graduate of Northwestern University Medical School. In 1915, he renounced his United States citizenship in order to join the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Attached to the 75th (Mississauga) Battalion, Hutcheson earned the Military Cross and the Victoria Cross during Canada’s Last Hundred Days. In 1920, he reclaimed his American…