CEFRG – Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group 1914-1919
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Corporal Edwin Sherman Tuck in the Great War
The death of Corporal Edwin Sherman Tuck, 18 January 1918. One of the first of the Victoria men to volunteer for service overseas, leaving in August 1914 with the draft from the 50th Gordon Highlanders, which afterwards became part of the 16th Canadian Scottish. Enlistment of Private Edwin Sherman Tuck Corporal Tuck married in May…
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Private Felix Arthur Adams in the Great War
Private Felix Arthur Adams served with the Canadian Forestry Corps in the Great War. Felix served in England and in the Jura and Marne groups in France. Felix had a lacerated left eye in childhood, required removal. Fitted with an ocular prosthesis, which he would lose more than once during his service abroad. Born 12…
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Captain Gordon Budd Irving DFC in the Great War
The only son of William Henry and Mary Irving of Toronto, Ontario. Captain Gordon Budd Irving educated at Huron Street Public and the University Schools. An employee of the National Trust Company, he joined the Royal Flying Corps in May 1917. After training at Camp Borden and in England, posted to No 19 Squadron in…
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Private Thomas Chester Rudolph in the Great War
Private Thomas Chester Rudolph born 30 November 1892, in Ellsworth, Pierce, Wisconsin. His father, Alexander Rudolf Jr, 41 and his mother, Sarah Jane Francis or Jenette Webster, 35 at this time. Married to Lillian Daisy (Whymark) Rudolph living at Suite 4, Calhoun Block, 934 – 17th Ave West, Calgary. Also notify Mrs J D Bunny,…
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Pioneer Arno Böhme in the Great War
Pioneer Arno Böhme a participant of the Christmas Truce at Ploegsteert Wood on 25 December 1914. Late on Christmas Eve 1914, men of the British Expeditionary Force heard German troops in the trenches opposite them singing carols and patriotic songs and saw lanterns and small fir trees along their trenches. Messages began to be shouted…
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Corporal John Hamilton Close MM in the Great War
Corporal John Hamilton Close MM, survivor of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, returned to the battlefield for the 75th Anniversary to honour his comrades. He died the following year in 1993, in his hometown of Hagersville, Ontario. John Hamilton Close born in Mitchell, Grey County Ontario on 4 July 1896. Next of kin his Uncle,…
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Nursing Sister Margaret Jane Fortescue in the Great War
Little Mother Nursing Sister Margaret Jane Fortescue the youngest daughter of the late Joseph Fortescue, Chief Factor, Hudson’s Bay Company. His wife, Sarah Jane, daughter of the late Rev Mason, DD, of Northumberland. Granddaughter of the late Matthew Fortescue, County Court Judge, of Totnes, Devon. Born in York Factory, Keewatin, North West Territories on 23…
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Private Abel Watetch in the Great War
Indigenous Soldiers Private Abel Watetch of Piapot Reserve, Edgeley, Saskatchewan married to Mary Francis Watetch with two children, Mary Madeline age 3, and a baby. Enlistment of Private Abel Watetch Abel Watetch 907650 enlisted on 4 April 1916 with the 195th Overseas Battalion in Regina, Saskatchewan. Standing 5′ 8″ tall with dark complexion, brown eyes,…
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1st Canadian Division March Past in the Great War
Liege, Belgium Reviewed by General Jacques of the Belgian Army On 4 February 1919, the 1st Canadian Division March Past occurred in Liege, Belgium. The 1st and 2nd Canadian Divisions, along with select Corps Troops, such as the 5th Canadian Divisional Artillery, still in France and Belgium as the 3rd and 4th Divisions had been…
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Lance Corporal Delbert Bean MM in the Great War
In loving memory of my dear husband who made the supreme sacrifice Lance Corporal Delbert Bean the son of Eugene and Nina Bean, of North Hatley, Quebec, Canada. Husband of Ethel Bean (Nee Smith), of 808, East 14th St., Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. North Hatley In 1792, Captain Ebenezer Hovey, an American from Connecticut found Lake…