CEFRG – Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group 1914-1919
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Sapper William Redver Stark in the Great War
Graphic Artist 1st Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops Sapper William Redver Stark born 4 February 1885 in Toronto to William Mackenzie Stark (1843-1922) and Ethel Copps (1854-1921). Prior to the Great War, studied art at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and at the Philadelphia School of Fine Arts. William subsequently served with the Canadian…
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Driver Albert Mountain-Horse in the Great War
Driver Albert Mountain-Horse served as Albert M. Horse 30396 in the Great War. Perhaps the first Indigenous soldier to enlist in the CEF, certainly the first from the North West. Son of Mountain Horse, one of the best orators the Blood Reserve of Macleod, Alberta ever produced. Educated at St Paul’s Mission, also one of…
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Captain Harold Stuart Hanson MC DSO in the Great War
Captain Harold Stuart Hanson, son of Robert Stanley Hanson and Edith Amelia Southon, educated at Deloraine School and Winnipeg. During the Great War, he served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, awarded the Military Cross, Distinguished Service Order and Mentioned in Despatches. Captain Harold Stuart Hanson’s Early Life Born 15 October 1891 in Deloraine, Manitoba, later…
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No.3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill) in the Great War
No.3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill) in the Great War describes the origins of the unit beginning in August 1914 with Herbert Stanley Birkett, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University. The Call to Arms (4 August 1914 – 5 May 1915) Origins of No.3 Canadian General Hospital When war declared in August, 1914,…
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Captain William Douglas Cruikshank in the Great War
Captain William Douglas Cruikshank worked alongside Lt Col John McCrae in No 3 Canadian General Hospital, prior to serving as Medical Officer with the 27th Battalion (City of Winnipeg), and then finished the Great War with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI). Following demobilization, and returning with the Regiment to Ottawa in 1919, unknown…
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Driver Earl Gilbert Wheeler in the Great War
The Missing Driver Earl Gilbert Wheeler the only member of the 5th Divisional Artillery listed on the Vimy Memorial. His name should be removed, for his body found to be buried in Dury Mill British Cemetery by a CEFSG Research Team in 2015, headed by the late Richard Laughton. Enlistment of Driver Earl Gilbert Wheeler…
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Private David Bamberger in the Great War
Served as David Nash Though Wilt Keep Him In Perfect Peace Private David Bamberger (served as David Nash) son of Jacob and Mary Bamberger, of 27 Milton Road, Stoke Newington, London, England, born 26 January 1884 in London, England. Enlistment of Private David Bamberger Private David Bamberger 2021031 enlisted 10 December 1917 in Vancouver, BC…
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Private Roy Frederick Vandecar in the Great War
Three Wound Stripes Private Roy Frederick Vandecar(e) 406833, mother Mrs Maud Doyle, 93 Richardson Street (later 15 Walnut Street), Brantford, Ontario. Place of birth: Paris, ON Canada, 11 March 1894. A laborer employed at the Steel Company of Canada. Enlistment Date: Apr 20 1915, witness Captain Thomas Lewis Blatchford, 77th Regiment, at Hamilton ON Canada.…
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Captain Gerald Oscar Lees in the Great War
Oceans part not kindred hearts / While they remain akin The Graves Registration Report form for Plot 59 Row D Grave12 lists an Unknown Captain of the Royal Highlanders of Canada – the regimental reference to the 13th Canadian Infantry Battalion. A review of all of the information clearly shows only one Captain of the…
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Friday, 13 December 1918, in the Great War
The 1st and 2nd Canadian Divisions, along with selected Corps Troops, marched to the Rhine in December of 1918 to assume occupation duties. A very rainy Friday, 13 December 1918 began ten continuous years of the Allied Occupation of Germany, as the Rhine river officially crossed at Cologne and Bonn. Rhein Bridge, Bonn Rheinbrücke Sir…