CEFRG – Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group 1914-1919
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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…
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8th (90th Winnipeg Rifles) Battalion in the Great War
The Little Black Devils of Canada HOSTI ACIE NOMINATI ‘The Little Black Devils of Canada’, 8th Canadian Infantry Battalion (90th Winnipeg Rifles). The black devil carries a trident and offers a chalice. Preserves the legend that during the North-West Rebellion soldiers referred to by the opposing forces as ‘little black devils’. Because of their almost…
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Major George Anderson Wells, CMG, DD in the Great War
The Right Reverend George Anderson Wells, CMG, DD was the second Bishop of Cariboo. Wells was a fisherman, sealer, labourer, and a trooper in the South African War before continuing his education at various American institutions. During the Great War, appointed Senior Chaplain to the Canadian Corps on 27 December 1917. Early Life Born at…