CEFRG – Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group 1914-1919
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No. 2 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station in the Great War
No.2 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station organized in Toronto in February 1915 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel George Septimus Rennie. Casualty Clearing Stations were the closest facilities to the front lines that could provide surgical treatment. They cared for patients until they could be further evacuated to a General Hospital by Ambulance Train. Staff Lieutenant Colonel…
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Matron Edith Campbell MM in the Great War
Nursing Sister Edith Campbell R.R.C., M.M., M.I.D. Matron Edith Campbell awarded the Military Medal for actions during an air raid. Also twice Mentioned in Despatches (June 1915 and December 1917). Edith Campbell of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, one of only eight Canadian Nursing Sisters awarded the Military Medal in the Great War. Edith’s nephew James Campbell Clouston…
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Gunner George McDougall in the Great War
Gunner George A McDougall born in Moncton, New Brunswick on 26 March 1881. Next of kin, his wife, Mrs Ella McDougall of 8 Pacific Avenue, Moncton, NB. Attestation of Gunner George McDougall Gunner George A McDougall 43901 attested 20 September 1914 in Valcartier, QC. Previous service with 74th Regiment, NB. A painter. Standing 5′ 5″…
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Captain Percival Molson MC in the Great War
The Molson family never failed to supply its full quota of fighting men of notable skill and energy at times when the country’s liberty and institutions appeared to be threatened. Captain Percival Molson MC of McGill University happened to be an exceptional athlete. He earned every athletic honour the University offered and earlier set a…
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Alberta from Albert in the Great War
The war time service of a brindle bull terrier Alberta, much respected in life, honoured in death Excerpts from The Great War As I Saw It by Lieutenant-Colonel Canon Frederick George Scott reveal the story of Alberta from Albert, a brindle bull terrier found by the Reverend on the Somme in the town of Albert.…
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Private Hubert Tapscott in the Great War
Private Hubert Tapscott born 17 June 1881, baptized 27 July 1881 at St Andrews Church in Somersetshire. Parents Alfred Frederick (Jan 1856-1 Nov 1918) and Elizabeth (Jennings) Tabscott (1845 – 25 Jan 1927) of Henley, High Ham, Somersetshire, England. Hubert emigrated from Liverpool on 26 February 1903 aboard the TUNISIAN to Halifax, Nova Scotia. In…
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Private James Peter Robertson VC in the Great War
Private James Peter Robertson son of Alexander (1852-10 Jul 1913) and Janet Robertson (24 Jan 1858 – 8 Jul 1933), of 656, 5th St., South East, Medicine Hat, Alberta. James posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for several actions during the Second Battle of Passchendaele. Victoria Cross Recipients With his 6 ft 3, Robertson, a locomotive…
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Nursing Sister Jessie Nelson King in the Great War
Nursing Sister Jessie Nelson King the daughter of Mrs C A King of Victoria, British Columbia. Nursing Sister King a graduate of the Royal Jubilee Hospital School of Nursing, Victoria, British Columbia, Class of 1916. Sister of Lieutenant Albert Nelson King, who died while serving with the Royal Horse Artillery. At the time of his…
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Private Richard Bloor DCM in the Great War
Private Richard Bloor of the 50th Canadian Infantry Battalion, posthumously earned the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Only five days after his 41st birthday at the Battle of Canal du Nord. Richard resided at 488 Logan Ave, Trenton, New Jersey with his wife Gertrude Agnes Bloor, and came to Canada enlist in the CEF in September 1917.…
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Lieutenant Colonel Heber Havelock Moshier in the Great War
Lieutenant Colonel Heber Havelock Moshier captured outside his No 11 Canadian Field Ambulance dugout by CWRO photographer Lieutenant William Rider-Rider shortly before his death in action on 29 August 1918 in the Second Battle of Arras. The contribution of medical care to the British Empire coalition by the Province of Alberta during the Great War…