CEFRG – Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group 1914-1919
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Private Everett Clarence Melvin Marshall in the Great War
Private Everett Clarence Melvin Marshall 748698 of the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles. Born on September 24, 1896, in Inverness, Quebec, his father, Herbert, was 27 and his mother, May, was 20. He was a farmer. Service Private Everett Clarence Marshall 748698 enlisted with ‘B’ Co., 117th Eastern Townships Overseas Battalion, CEF. At Inverness on 22…
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Soldat Emile Hallez Royal 22e Régiment in the Great War
Cela brise le cœur l’histoire inédite de ce soldat, Emile Hallez, Royal 22e Régiment, grièvement blessé le 26 août 1918, lors de la Battaile de la Scarpe. Dix-sept ans d’hospitalisation jusqu’à sa mort. Early Life Emile Hallez born 4 March 1893 in Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville. A district within the Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est borough of the city of Lévis,…
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Lieutenant Colonel Allison Hart Borden D.S.O. in the Great War
Lt.-Col. Allison Hart Borden D.S.O. of the 85th (Nova Scotia Highlanders) Battalion in the Great War. Two tours of duty as commanding officer of the Nova Scotia Highlanders following service with the Royal Canadian Regiment (R.C.R.). Awarded the Distinguished Service Order for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Early Life Born in Guysboro, Nova Scotia…
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Nursing Sister Lenna Mae Jenner, C.A.M.C. in the Great War
Lenna Mae Jenner born 17 November 1889 in Brookfield, Queen’s County, Nova Scotia. Daughter of the Rev. John Hugh and Mary Fisher Jenner (MacIntyre), of 133 Prince Street, Saint John, New Brunswick. Sister of Ada Blanche Ross. Nursing Sister Lenna Mae Jenner’s older brother Sergeant Hugh Burton Jenner 68123 with the CEF first contingent in…
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Lt Harry Clifford Charles Beaumont MC in the Great War
Lt. Harold Clifford Charles Beaumont MC ‘Harry’ Clifford Charles Beaumont was born on 25 May 1889. Married to Edith Beaumont of Medicine Hat, Alberta (later 450 Indian Road, Toronto, Ontario). They had no children. Harry was an Insurance Broker by trade, and had six years previous service with the 90th Rifles, and four years with…
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Captain Robert Pearson, Y.M.C.A. in the Great War
Captain Robert Pearson, of the Y.M.C.A., severely wounded in action during the Battle of Courcelette on 8 September 1916. With a bullet still remaining in his thorax, Pearson returned to the Y.M.C.A. He also served with the 49th, 28th and 31st Battalions. He returned for a short visit to Canada in early 1918, and spoke…
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Private Andrew Mackie MacLean in the Great War
Private Andrew Mackie MacLean 477560, son of Mary and Mr. MacLean, of Kelvinbridge, Glasgow, Scotland. Born in Troon, Scotland on 7 January 1892. He was a machinist by trade. Andrew suffered a horrible injury in the Great War. An exploding bullet entered his mouth. Operated on by the preeminent expert of the time in facial…
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Major Talbot Mercer Papineau MC in the Great War
The Soul of Canada You know, Hughie? This is suicide. The Greatest Prime Minister of Canada – not! Talbot Mercer Papineau MC had it all. Intelligent, charming, athletic, dashingly handsome, affluent, with a biting-sense of black humour; this fluently-bilingual Anglo/French-Canadian with a deep love for Canada destined to be the Greatest Prime Minister of Canada.…
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Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae in the Great War
IN FLANDERS FIELDS by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved, and were loved, and now we lieIn…
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The Hermanson Brothers in the Great War
þetta reddast It will work out okay The Hermanson brothers, Sveinn (Steven) and Magdal (Mack), sons of Gudjon (Joseph) and Magdalen (Sigurdottur) Hermanson, born in Reykjavík, Iceland. Mack was the first Icelander to give his life for Canada, serving with the 90th Winnipeg Rifles (8th Battalion, CEF). Steven arrived late in the Great War with…