CEFRG – Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group 1914-1919
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Lance Corporal Alexander Fairweather Bunch in the Great War
L/Cpl Alexander Fairweather Bunch 532735 was born 30 November 1876 in Dundee, Scotland. He immigrated from Scotland to Canada with his wife Annie and 4 young children, circa 1904. He was a carpenter for a coal company. Alexander served with No. 13 Canadian Field Ambulance, C.A.M.C. Killed-inActio in the town of Vis-en-Artois. It was the…
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Artillery – Heavy and Siege Battery in the Great War
Artillery Heavy and Siege Battery, were composed of sections, each having two guns. Batteries were reduced to four guns each in December 1914 but returned to six guns each in March 1917. There were four batteries in each artillery brigade. Most field batteries did not have war diaries; accounts of their activities were recorded in…
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Nursing Sister Mary Lillian Cameron in the Great War
Early Life Lieutenant Mary Lillian Cameron born 8 December 1894 in Canso, Nova Scotia to Laura and Frederick A. Cameron. Mary enlisted 22 May 1917 at Montreal with Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC). Her unit being No.4 General Hospital (University of Toronto). Mary Lillian single. The oldest of three children. Her father operated a general store in the small fishing port.…
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Private Manuel Bermudez in the Great War
A son of Venezuela who fought, and died for God’s justice on earth. The only son of Venezuela who fought, and died for Canada in the Great War. Private Manuel Bermudez Private Manuel Bermudez 919831, son of Manuel Bermudez Lecuna, and his wife, Carlota Valdez de Bermudez, 33/3 Punceres a Plaza Lopez, Caracas, Venezuela. Manuel…
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The Cameron Brothers in the Great War
The Cameron Brothers of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, in the Great War. Lieutenant John Angus Cameron DSO, and Sergeant Alexander Cameron MM. Both of the Cameron Brothers medalled. Johan Angus received his DSO at Buckingham Palace, while younger brother Alexander’s Military Medal, was awarded posthumously. Sergeant Alexander Cameron MM The younger of the Cameron brothers…
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Sir Frederick Oscar Warren Loomis in the Great War
LOOMIS, Sir FREDERICK OSCAR WARREN, KCB CMG DSO, businessman, militia and army officer, was born 1 February 1870 in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Son of Daniel Gordon Loomis and Amelia Hall Burrowes. Married in 1894 to Margaret Morrison Mundell in Springfield, Mass. They had five sons and two daughters. Major General Frederick Loomis died 15 February 1937 in Montreal. Early…
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31st Alberta Battalion in the Great War
Organization 31st (Alberta) Battalion ‘Bell’s Bulldogs’ organizes in November 1914 under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Henry Bell. The 31st Battalion mobilized at Calgary, recruited in Edmonton, Calgary, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Red Deer, Wetaskiwin, Youngstown, Claresholm and also Pincher Creek. Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Henry Bell Arthur Henry Bell a professional soldier and veteran of the Boer War.…
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Wednesday, 4 December 1918, in the Great War
First Division troops of the Canadian Corps cross the German frontier at Poteau, Belgium, on Wednesday, 4 December, 1918. Note, as per the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the border here was moved 30 kms to the east in 1920, where it remains today. Also, it is important to note the Armistice, of 11…
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Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow MM & two Bars in the Great War
Introduction Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow 6846 one of the most highly decorated Indigenous soldiers of the Great War. An Ojibwa from the Perry Island Band in Ontario, awarded the Military Medal plus two bars for acts of bravery in Belgium and France. Pegahmagabow one of only 39 members of the CEF who received two bars in…
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Private Clifford Moss MM in the Great War
Private Clifford Moss MM 477609 was born in Yorkshire, England on 1 January 1894. His widowed mother is Mrs. Maud Ross, of 52 Lillian Street, Wolsely Road, Leeds, England. She is now living in Belwood, Ontario. His sister Mrs. W.G. Campbell also resides in Belwood. Clifford is a Farmer. Clifford enlists on 23 April 1915,…