CEFRG – Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group 1914-1919
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Company Sgt Major David Parfitt in the Great War
In May 2019, a research report (submitted by the late Richard Laughton of Milton, Ontario and Chris Wright of Lakewood, Colorado) received suggesting an unknown grave at Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt, in France, could be identified. The Canadian Armed Forces and DND confirmed the grave in question belongs to Company Sgt Major David George Parfitt.…
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Capitaine-Abbé Georges Crochetière in the Great War
Capitaine-Abbé Georges Étienne Rosario Crochetière the only member of the Canadian Chaplain Service killed-in-action and buried on the Western Front during the Great War. Captain (Reverend) Webster Henry Fanning Harris the first casualty of the Chaplain Service, wounded on the Somme in 1916, later died in England in May of 1917. Rosaire Crochetière, the beloved…
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Captain Clement Gawler Mead MC in the Great War
Friendly Fire Captain Clement Gawler Mead MC, son of the Rev. Richard Gawler Mead and Mrs. M. E. Mead, of Sussex, England; husband of Kate Mead, of Lake Saskatoon, Alberta. Born 25 July 1880. Grant & Mead Mead a prominent farmer residing about five miles from Lake Saskatoon associated with William Grant and founded Grant…
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Private John Millington 174876 in the Great War
Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade Private John Millington 174876 born 10 November 1894 in London, England. A labourer standing 5′ 9″ tall with dark complexion, brown eyes and dark hair. Next of kin his sister Annie Millington, and his brother Alex Millington residing in the ‘Truth’ Ward at St George Infirmary, Wapping, England. Attestation of…
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Lance Corporal George Boone in the Great War
48th Highlanders of Canada Lance Corporal George Boone a harness maker from St John, New Brunswick. Next of kin parents Westley M and Fannie Boone of 143 Wright Street, St John. Enlistment of Private George Boone Private George W Boone 22713 enlisted 28 September 1914 in Valcartier, Quebec, Lt Col H McLeod Approving Officer. George…
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Private Joseph Roussin MM in the Great War
Private Joseph Roussin from Oka, Quebec attested on 16 July 1915 in Ottawa. Joe marked his attestation paper with an ‘x’. Lt Col Douglas Richmond Street of the 77th Battalion approving officer. As a Roman Catholic, Street hoped to appeal to French-Canadian volunteers when organizing the 77th. Joseph, a lumberman standing 5′ 6″ tall, 150…
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Private Wilfred James Ernest Young in the Great War
Private Wilfred James Ernest Young son of James Albert W. and Elizabeth Ada Young, of 15 Balfour Avenue, Toronto, Ontario. Wilfred posthumously awarded the Croix du Guerre for liberating the town of Monchy-le-Preux in August of 1918. Attestation of Private Wilfred James Ernest Young Private Wilfred James Ernest Young 171403 initially attested with 83rd Overseas…
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Lieutenant James Swirles Hood in the Great War
Lieutenant James Swirles Hood son of Andrew Hood, of 29 Townsend Place, Kirkcaldy, Scotland, and the late Christina Swirles Hood. Grand-nephew of Mrs A Binnie of 61 Foxbar Road, Kirkcaldy. James came to Canada in 1913 from Kirkcaldy, Scotland. A brother, Robin Hood, a Flight Commander in the Royal Flying Corps with the rank of…
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Major Norman Dundas Perry DSO in the Great War
Major Norman Dundas Perry born 5 December 1878 in St Thomas, Ontario. Father James Black Perry (1845-1936) mother Euphemia Dickie (1847-1930). Predeceased by his brother James Roy Perry B.A. (1874-1902), younger brother Gordon Foxbar Perry (1882-1964), younger sisters Mary Dickie (Canfield) Perry (1877-1968) and also Marjorie Carlyle (Pellatt) Perry (1888-1974). Attestment of Captain Norman Dundas…
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Private Frederick Horne in the Great War
Private Frederick Horne born in Norfolk, England on 31 March 1894. A Laborer. Next of kin, his wife Molly Horne. Father of Sergeant Reginald Ernest Horne, who died 19 September 1944 during service with the Algonquin Regiment, R.C.I.C. Attestation of Private Frederick Horne Pte Frederick Horne 4319 attested 23 January 1915 in Chatam, Ontario. Two years…