WORLD WAR I CANADIAN GENERALS
1 CANADIAN GENERAL OFFICERS WW1
General Sir Arthur William CURRIE, GCMG, KCB GOC – 1st Canadian Corps Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Ernest William TURNER, VC, KCB, KCMG, DSO Chief of General Staff in the United Kingdom Major-General Sir Edward Whipple Bancroft MORRISON, KCMG, CB, DSO GOC - Royal Artillery – Canadian Corps Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Cameron MACDONELL, KCB, CMG, DSO, VD GOC – 1st Canadian Division Major-General Sir Samuel Benfield STEELE, KCMG, CB, MVO GOC – 2nd Canadian Division Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Edward BURSTALL, KCB, KCMG, ADC GOC – 2nd Canadian Division Major-General Malcolm Smith MERCER, CB (KIA) GOC – 3rd Canadian Division Major-General Sir Frederick Oscar Warren LOOMIS, KCB, CMG, DSO and Bar, VD GOC – 3rd Canadian Division Major-General Sir David WATSON, KCB, CMG GOC – 4th Canadian Division Major-General Garnet Burk HUGHES, CB, CMG, DSO GOC – 5th Canadian Division Brigadier-General William St. Pierre HUGHES, DSO, VD CDR - 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade Major-General William Antrobus GRIESBACH, CB, CMG, DSO & Bar GOC – 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade Major-General George Eric McCUAIG, CMG, DSO and Bar GOC – 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General John Fletcher Leopold EMBURY, CB, CMG, VD, KC GOC – 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Robert Percy CLARK, CMG, DSO, MC GOC – 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Robert Gilmour Edwards LECKIE, CMG GOC – 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Robert R. RENNIE, CB, CMG, DSO, MVO GOC – 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General John Munro ROSS, CMG, DSO and Bar GOC – 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade Major-General James George ROSS, CMG, VD Paymaster General Major-General The Honourable Archibald Hayes MACDONELL, CMG, DSO GOC – 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade Major-General Thomas Louis TREMBLAY, CB, CMG, DSO, ED GOC – 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Huntley Douglas Brodie KETCHEN, CB, CMG GOC – 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Arthur Henry BELL, CMG, DSO GOC – 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Alexander ROSS, OC CMG, DSO, KC GOC – 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Hugh Marshall DYER, CB, CMG, DSO and Bar GOC – 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General George Stuart TUXFORD, CB, CMG, DSO and Bar, ED GOC – 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General John Arthur CLARK, CMG, DSO GOC – 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade Major-General Victor Wentworth ODLUM, CB, CMG, DSO and Bar, VD, LLD GOC – 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Victor Arthur Seymour WILLIAMS, CMG GOC – 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General James Harold ELMSLEY, CB, CMG, DSO GOC – 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Dennis Colburne DRAPER, CMG, DSO and Bar GOC – 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Frederick William HILL, CB, CMG, DSO GOC – 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Daniel Mowat ORMOND, CMG, DSO and Bar GOC – 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Edward HILLIAM, CMG, DSO GOC – 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Ross John Finnis HAYTER, CMG, DSO GOC – 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General James KIRKCALDY, CMG, DSO GOC – 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General John Grant RATTRAY, CMG, DSO GOC – Training Brigade CEF Major-General Herbert Cyril THACKER, CB, CMG, DSO CRA - 1st Canadian Divisional Artillery Major-General Henri Alexandre PANET, CB, CMG, DSO CRA - 2nd Canadian Divisional Artillery Brigadier-General James Henry MITCHELL, DSO CRA – 3rd Canadian Divisional Artillery Brigadier-General John Smith STEWART, DSO CRA – 3rd Canadian Divisional Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Gurney CARSCALLEN, DSO CRA – 3rd Canadian Divisional Artillery Brigadier-General William Birchall Macaulay KING, CMG, DSO CRA – 4th Canadian Divisional Artillery Brigadier-General Charles Henry MacLAREN, DSO CRA – 4th Canadian Divisional Artillery Brigadier-General George Harrah RALSTON, DSO CRA – 5th Divisional Artillery Brigadier-General William Okell Holden DODDS, CMG, DSO, VD CRA – 5th Canadian Division Brigadier-General Raymond BRUTINEL, CB, CMG, DSO GOC – Canadian Machine Gun Corps Brigadier-General Robert Walter PATERSON, CMG, DSO GOC – Canadian Cavalry Brigade Major-General William Bethune LINDSAY, CB, CMG, DSO Chief Engineer - Canadian Corps Brigadier-General Charles Johnston ARMSTRONG, CB, CMG, VD Chief Engineer - Canadian Corps Major-General Alexander Lorne McDOUGALL, CB GOC - Canadian Forestry Corps Major-General Henry SMITH Judge Advocate General Colonel Oliver Mowat BIGGAR Judge Advocate General Major-General William Egerton HODGINS, CMG Adjutant-General Major-General Percival Edward THACKER, CB, CMG Adjutant-General Major-General James Charles MACDOUGALL Assistant Adjutant-General Major-General Guy Carleton JONES, CMG Director-General of Medical Services Major-General Gilbert Lafayette FOSTER, CB, MD, FRS, LLD Director-General of Medical Services Brigadier-General Henry Stanley BIRKETT, CB Assistant Director-General Medical Services Colonel Frederick Gault FINLEY, CB OIC – No., 1 Canadian General Hospital Brigadier-General Charles Hamilton MITCHELL, CB, CMG, DSO Senior Intelligence Officer War Office London Major-General Donald Macdonald HOGARTH, CMG, DSO Quartermaster-General Major-General Sir Donald Alexander MACDONALD, Kt, CMG, ISO Quartermaster-General Major-General James Lyons BIGGAR, CMG Quartermaster-General Major-General The Honourable Alexander Duncan McRAE, CB Director of Supplies and Services Major-General William Alexander LOGIE, CB GOC – Military District #6 Major-General Thomas BENSON GOC – Military District #9
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CANADIAN MINISTER of MILITIA and DEFENCE WW1
Lieutenant-General The Honourable Sir Sam HUGHES, PC, KCB, VD Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence Major-General The Honourable Sydney Chilton MEWBURN, PC, CMG, KC Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence Major-General Sir John Wallace CARSON, Kt, CB Special Representative Minister of Militia in Britain Major-General The Honourable Sir Marie-Joseph-Eugène FISET KT CMG DSO KStJ ED Deputy-Minister of Defence
GENERAL OFFICERS who were FOUNDERS of REGIMENTS
Brigadier-General Andrew Hamilton GAULT, DSO, OBE, ED Founder Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Major General Sir Henry Mill PELLATT, Kt, CVO, DCL, VD Founder
CANADIAN GENERAL OFFICERS BETWEEN THE WARS
Lieutenant-General Ernest Charles ASHTON, CB, CMG, VD, MD Adjutant-General – Canadian Army WWI Major-General Sir James Howden MacBRIEN, KCB, CMG, DSO and Bar, CStJ Chief of the General Staff Major-General William Henry Pferinger ELKINS, CB, CBE, DSO and Bar Master General of Ordnance Major-General William Waring Primrose GIBSONE, CMG, DSO, OBE DOC – Military District #4 (Montreal)
CANADIAN GENERAL OFFICERS WWII WHO SERVED IN WWI
General George Latta McNAUGHTON, CH, CB, CMG, DSO GOC – Heavy Artillery (BGen WWI) Major-General Charles Sumner Lund HERTZBERG, CB, MC, VD Major-General WWII Major-General Halfdan Fenton Harboe HERTZBERG, CB, CMG, MC, VD Engineer Brigade Commander – Cdn Engineers Major-General Edouard de Bellefeuille PANET, CMG, DSO, ED Director of Internment Brigadier-General Reginald John ORDE, CBE, CD, KC Judge Advocate General
CANADIAN GENERAL OFFICERS PRIOR TO WWI
General Sir William Dillon OTTER, KCB, CVO, VD Director of Internment of Enemy Nationals WWI Major-General François-Louis LESSARD, CB Adjutant-General Major-General Charles William DRURY, CB Commander Canadian Artillery Major-General James F. WILSON Commandant Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
BRITISH OFFICERS SERVING in the CANADIAN ARMY
Field Marshal, The Honourable Lord Byng, GCB, GCMG Commander – Canadian Corps Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey ALDERSON, KCB Commander – Canadian Corps Lieutenant-General Sir Willoughby Garnons GWATKIN, KCMG, CB Chief of General Staff Canadian Militia Major-General, The Right Honourable John Edward Bernard SEELY PC CB CMG DSO Commander – Canadian Cavalry Brigade Major-General Harry MacIntire ELLIOT, CB, CMG Master General of Ordnance Major-General Louis James LIPSETT, CB, CMG General Officer Commanding – 3rd Canadian Division Brigadier-General Arthur Cecil CURRIE, CB, CMG GOC – Heavy Artillery Brigadier-General George Jasper FARMAR, CB, CMG Deputy Adjutant – Canadian Corps Brigadier-General Roger Henry MASSIE, CB, CMG GOC – Heavy Artillery Brigadier-General Leopold Guy Francis Maynard Lord BROOKE, CMG, MVO GOC – 4th and 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade Brigadier-General Raymond Theodore PELLY, CB, CMG, DSO* CO – Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
CANADIANS SERVING in the BRITISH ARMY who were GENERAL OFFICERS
General Sir William Charles Giffard HENEKER, KCB, KCMG, DSO GOC – 8th British Infantry Division General Sir George Macaulay KIRKPATRICK, KCB, KCSI, CB Chief of the General Staff in India WWI Lieutenant-General Sir George Norton CORY, KBE, CB, DSO Headquarters British Army Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Macpherson DOBELL, KCB, CMG, DSO Egyptian Expeditionary Force Sinai and Palestine Major-General Robert Kellock SCOTT, CB, CMG, DSO Royal Ordnance Corps Major-General Sir Philip Geoffrey TWINING, KCMG, CB, MVO Adjutant-General and Quartermaster-General Major-General Sir Casimir Cartwright van STRAUBENZEE, KBE, CB, CMG Inspector General – Royal Artillery Major-General Herbert Colborne NANTON, CB, CIE Royal Engineers Major-General William Henry NICKERSON, VC, CB, CMG, MB, KHS Royal Army Medical Corps Brigadier-General Alphonse Eugène PANET, CB, CMG, DSO Royal Engineers Major-General George Napier JOHNSTON, CB, CMG, DSO Cdr Royal Artillery (CRA) - New Zealand Army Colonel Sir George McLaren BROWN, KBE Assistant Director of Movements Major-General Sir Percy Cranwell GIROUARD, KCMG, DSO Royal Engineers
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3 General Sir Arthur William CURRIE, GCMG, KCB Commander – 1st Canadian Corps
Born: 05/12/1875 Naperton, Middlesex County, Ontario Married: 14 August 1901 Lucy Chaworth-Musters in Victoria Died: 30 November 1933 Montreal, Quebec
Honours
08/02/1919 GCMG General 26/01/1918 KCB Lieutenant-General 28/07/1917 KCMG Temporary Major-General 17/07/1915 CB Temporary Brigadier-General 23/10/1915 Commander Legion of Honour France Grand Officer Legion of Honour France 16/04/1918+ Croix Croix de Guerre avec Palm France 21/08/1919+ Croix Croix de Guerre France 13/04/1918 Grand Commander Order of the Crown Belgium 11/03/1918+ Croix Croix de Guerre Belgium 30/08/1919 Medal Distinguished Service Medal USA 07/01/1919 MID Mentioned-in-Despatches LGen 9X MID Mentioned-in-Despatches
Civilian
Teacher Provincial Manager National Life Assurance Company Currie & Power - Real Estate in Victoria
Military
06/05/1897 Gunner 5th Regiment, Cdn Garrison Artillery (C.G.A) 1900 Corporal 5th Regiment, Canadian Garrison Artillery 1900 Lieutenant Canadian Garrison Artillery 1902 Captain Canadian Garrison Artillery 1909 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 5th Regiment CGA 1913 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 50th Regiment, Gordon Highlanders of Canada (to November 1913) 29/09/1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 2nd Cdn Brigade (LG 02/03/1915) 01/03/1915 Brigadier Promoted / Commanding 2nd Cdn Brigade 13/09/1915 Major-General Promoted MGen Commander 1st Canadian Division 09/06/1917 Lieutenant-General Commanding 1st Canadian Corps 08/1919 General Inspector General of the Canadian Army 1919 – 1933 Honorary Colonel 5th (British Columbia) Regiment CFA
Civilian after WWI
1920 – 1933 Principal and Vice-Chancellor McGill University
4 General Sir Arthur William CURRIE, GCMG, KCB Commander - Corps
Medals in the War Museum in Ottawa and include:
Collar, Star and Badge of the GCMG Badge and Star of the KCB Badge and Star of a Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour Order of the Crown, Grand Officer (Belgium) (not in Museum)
Mounted:
1914-15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal with MID (he had 9 Mentions in WWI) Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration (GV) American Distinguished Service Medal (Army) Belgium Croix de Guerre with two bronze palmes French Croix de Guerre with bronze palm
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5 Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Ernest William TURNER, VC, KCB, KCMG, DSO Chief of General Staff in the United Kingdom
Born: 25/07/1871 Quebec City, Quebec Died: 19/06/1961 Quebec City, Quebec
Honours and Medals
23/04/1901+ VC Lieutenant – RC Dragoons 26/01/1918 KCB Lieutenant-General 28/07/1917 KCMG Temporary Major-General 17/07/1915 CB Temporary Brigadier 19/04/1901+ DSO Lieutenant – RC Dragoons 29/11/1900 MID (3x) Lieutenant – RC Dragoons 16/05/1901+ MID Mentioned in Despatches S.A. Lieutenant 24/03/1917+ Commander Legion of Honour France LGen 05/11/1920+ Croix Croix de Guerre avec Palme France LGen 04/12/1920 Order Order of the White Eagle with Swords Russia
Civilian
1891 Entered Office of Whitehead and Turner, Q.C. Gradually promoted and eventually a partner
Military
22 /04/1892 Lieutenant Queen’s Own Canadian Hussars 1899 Lieutenant Royal Canadian Dragoons to South Africa 1900 Lieutenant RCDs – Boer War – Awarded Victoria Cross 1902 Brevet LCol Command King’s Royal Colonial Escort Coronation 10/07/1905 Brevet LCol CO - Queen’s Own Canadian Hussars 03/02/1907 Brevet LCol CO - 3rd Eastern Township Calvary Brigade 29/09/1914 Col / Temp BGen Promoted Temporary Brigadier LG 02/03/1915 29/11/1914 T/Brigadier GOC - 3rd Cdn Brigade (1st Division) CEF 17/12/1914 T/Brigadier Commandant North Camp Lark Hill 02/03/1915 T/Brigadier GOC - 3rd Canadian Brigade CEF 12/07/1915 T/Brigadier GOC - 1st Canadian Division Temporary 12/08/1915 T/Brigadier SOS - 1st Canadian Division 17/08/1915 Major-General GOC - 2nd Canadian Division / CEF to France 06/1916 Major-General Turner and Hughes handle their duties poorly 26/11/1916 Major-General SOS - 2nd Canadian Division 05/12/1916 Major-General Cdn Government’s Chief Military Advisor Britain 09/06/1917 Lieutenant-General Chief of the General Staff 31/07/1919 Lieutenant-General End Chief of the General Staff
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6 Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Ernest William TURNER, VC, KCB, KCMG, DSO, VD Chief of General Staff in the United Kingdom
Medals: Victoria Cross Knight Commander – Order of the Bath Neck Badge & Star Knight Commander – Order of St. Michael and St. George Neck Badge & Star Distinguished Service Order Queen's South Africa Medal bar Johannesburg bar Diamond Hill bar Belfast bar Cape Colony bar Orange Free State bar South Africa 1901 1914/15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal with MID ERVII Coronation medal GV Jubilee medal GVI Coronation medal EIIR Coronation medal Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers Decoration (ERVII) CD (GVI) and bar Commander of the French Legion d'Honneur neck badge Croix de Guerre with Palme (France) The Order of the White Eagle of Russia with Swords neck badge and star
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7 Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Cameron MACDONELL, KCB, CMG, DSO, VD General Officer Commanding – 1st Canadian Division
Born: 06/10/1864 Windsor, Canada West Married: Mary Maud Flora Campbell Children: 5 Children 1 Son & 2 Daughters died in Infancy Died: 23/12/1941 Kingston, Ontario
Honours and Medals
08/02/1919 KCB Major-General 28/07/1917 CB T/Brigadier 12/02/1916 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel 19/04/1901+ DSO Captain 29/01/1919+ Officer Legion of Honour France MGen 21/09/1919+ Croix Croix de Guerre avec Palme France MGen 1901 Queen's South Africa With three Bars 1919 1914/15 Star 1919 British War Medal 1919 Victory Medal with MID Colonial Auxiliary Officer’s Decoration VD 7x MID
Military
09/1885 Officer Cadet Royal Military College #151 06/1885 Graduated Became a Civil Engineer * 26/06/1886 Lieutenant Canadian Militia 06/04/1888 Lieutenant Canadian Mounted Infantry, Permanent Corps 01/09/1889 Inspector Adjutant Northwest Mounted Police Commanded ‘C’ Division and the Battleford District 21/01/1899 Captain Leave Halifax 17/02/1899 Captain Arrive Cape Town, South Africa 15/01/1900 Captain 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles – Boer War 01/05/1900 Major 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles – Boer War Wounded 1901 Major 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles – Awarded DSO 23/05/1902 Lieutenant-Colonel 5th CMR - Promoted LCol LG 22/08/1902+ 05/1902 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanded 5th Cdn Mounted Rifles return SA 1902 Inspector Command ‘C’ Division NWMP Battleford District 1902 Superintendent NWMP 1907 Lieutenant-Colonel 2 i/c Canadian Mounted Rifles 1909 Lieutenant-Colonel 2 i/c CMR renamed Lord Strathcona’s Horse 04/1910 Lieutenant-Colonel Staff Officer Ottawa 04/1912 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanded Lord Strathcona’s Horse (RC) 22/12/1915 Brigadier GOC - 7th Infantry Brigade (3rd Division) 17/02/1916 Brigadier Severely Wounded; Temporarily gives up Cmd 06/05/1916 Brigadier GOC - 7th Infantry Brigade (3rd Division) 09/06/1917 Major-General GOC - 1st Canadian Division 22/05/1919 Major-General End GOC 1st Canadian Division 01/07/1919 Major-General Commandant Royal Military College 07/1925 Lieutenant-General Retired on the Reserve of Officers List 08/05/1922 Honorary Colonel Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) Honorary Colonel 5th British Columbia Light Horse Honorary Colonel Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Honorary Colonel Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders
* Offered Commission in the Royal Artillery but decided to stay in Canada and join the Canadian Militia
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8 Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Cameron MACDONELL, KCB, CMG, DSO, VD General Officer Commanding – 1st Canadian Division
9 Major-General Sir Samuel Benfield STEELE, KCMG, CB, MVO General Officer Commanding – 2nd Canadian Division
Born: 05/01/1849 Purbrook, Simcoe County, Ontario Married: 1890 Marie-Elizabeth Lotbiniere-Harwood of Children: 3 1 Son; 2 Daughters \ Vaudreuil, Quebec Died: 30/01/1919 London, England
Honours
01/01/1918+ KCMG Major-General 19/04/1901+ CB Lieutenant-Colonel 08/03/1901+ MVO 4th Class Lieutenant-Colonel (now LVO) 08/02/1901+ MID Mentioned in Despatches S.A. 16/04/1901+ MID Mentioned-in-Dispatches S.A. LCol
Military
1866 Joined Militia 35th (Simcoe) Battalion of Infantry 1866 Commissioned Served during the Fenian Raids 1868 Commissioned 31st (Grey) Battalion of Infantry 1870 Private 1st (Ontario) Battn of Rifles, Barrie 1870 Corporal Red River Expedition 1870 1871 Joined Permanent Force RCHA 1873 Sergeant Northwest Mounted Police (3rd Member NWMP) 1874 Staff-Sergeant Northwest Mounted Police 1875 Chief Constable Northwest Mounted Police 1878 Inspector Command of Fort Qu’Appelle 1885 Superintendent NWMP 1887 Superintendent Led Expedition into Kootenay Region BC 1898 Assistant Commissioner NWMP, Yukon (White & Chilkoot Passes) Magistrate and in charge of Customs 1899 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanded Strathcona’s Horse in South Africa 1900 Lieutenant-Colonel Strathcona’s Horse active in South Africa 07/03/1900 Lieutenant-Colonel Temporary Rank of Lieutenant-Colonel 1901 Brevet Colonel Brought Strathcona’s Horse home to Canada 1901 Brevet Colonel Commanded ‘B’ Div South African Constabulary 1906 Brevet Colonel Returned to Canada; Command M.D. #13 Alberta 1910 Brevet Colonel Command Militia District #10, Winnipeg 1914 Brigadier-General Inspector-General of Forces Western Canada 25/05/1915 Major-General GOC - 2nd Canadian Division, CEF 21/04/1916 Major-General Sam Hughes made him Cdr of Cdn Troops Europe 1916 Major-General Removed as Cdn Commander; Kept B.A. Appoint. 1916 Major-General GOC, Shorncliffe Area (SE District) England 15/07/1918 Major-General Retired from O.M.F.C. LG 27/07/18+
10 Major-General Sir Samuel Benefield STEELE, KCMG, CB, MVO
Medals:
KCMG Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael & St. George CB Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Bath MVO 4th Class Member, Royal Victorian Order (4th Class – now LVO) Medal Red River Medal with Clasp 1870 Medal Northwest Canada Medal with Clasp Medal Queen’s South Africa Medal with 3 Clasps Medal King’s South Africa Medal with 2 Clasps Star 1914/1915 Star Medal British War Medal Medal Victory Medal with MID
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11 Major-General Sir Edward Whipple Bancroft MORRISON, KCMG, CB, DSO GOC Royal Artillery – Canadian Corps
Born: 06/07/1867 London, Ontario Married: 16/01/1911 Emma Fripp New York (Emma died 11/10/1936) Children: Nil Nil Died: 28/05/1925 Ottawa, Ontario
Honours:
12/07/1919 KCMG Major-General 26/01/1918 CB Temporary Brigadier 03/02/1917 CMG Temporary Brigadier 27/09/1901+ DSO Lieutenant 10/09/1901+ MID Lieutenant – Mentioned in Roberts Dispatch 1902 QSA Queen’s South Africa – bars Transvaal, \ Orange River Colony & Cape Colony. 1918 WWI Trio with MID MID Mentioned in Despatches
Civilian
1888 Journalist Hamilton Spectator 1895 City Editor Hamilton Spectator 07/1898 Editor-in-Chief Ottawa Citizen 1899 Leave Serve in Boer War in South Africa 1901 Return Ottawa Citizen 1913 Left the Ottawa Citizen; joined Permanent Force
Military
05/1887 2nd Lieutenant 4th Field Battery, RCHA, Hamilton 1898 Lieutenant 2nd Field Battery, RCHA, Ottawa 1900 Lieutenant-Colonel CRA - 8th Artillery Brigade 1913 Lieutenant-Colonel Director of Artillery Cdn HQ Staff 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel CRA - 1st Brigade Cdn Field Artillery 05/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Submits “In Flanders Fields” to Punch 26/06/1915 Brigadier-General CRA - 1st Cdn Div Artillery LG 06/06/16+ 02/10/1915 Brigadier-General CRA - 2nd Canadian Division Artillery 18/12/1916 Major-General GOC – Royal Artillery 1st Cdn Corps 17/06/1919 Major-General Army of Occupation in Germany 06/19 Major-General Inspector-General, CFA 1920 Major-General Master-General of Ordnance 1922 Major-General Adjutant-General 1924 Retired Died following year
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12 Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Edward BURSTALL, KCB, KCMG, ADC General Officer Commanding – 2nd Canadian Division Artillery Officer (Permanent Force Officer)
Born: 26/08/1870 Quebec City, PQ Married: April 1907 Frances MacKenzie Children: 3 Daughters Died: 08/02/1945 Headbourne Worthy, England
Honours and Medals
09/06/1919+ KCMG Major-General 06/07/1918+ KCB Major-General 28/07/1917+ CMG Temporary Major-General 17/07/1915+ CB Temporary Brigadier-General 25/12/1920 Commander Legion of Honour France 21/08/1919+ Croix Croix de Guerre France 25/12/1920 Croix Croix de Guerre avec Etoile en Argent France 31/03/1917 2nd Class Order of Stanislav with Swords Russia 07/01/1919 MID Mentioned in Dispatches Sir Douglas Haig 1900 Queen’s Medal 4 Clasps 1902 King’s Medal 2 Clasps
Military
09/1887 Officer Cadet Royal Military College Kingston RMC #246 07/1889 Lieutenant Royal Canadian Artillery (RCA) 1898 Lieutenant Royal Canadian Artillery - Yukon Force 30/10/1899 Lieutenant 1st Contingent from Quebec to South Africa 1901 Captain Boer War 04/1901 Captain South African Constabulary (Transvaal) 04/1903 Brevet Major Return to Canada 1907 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Royal Canadian Horse Artillery 1911 Lieutenant-Colonel Inspector Cdn Artillery, Horse, Field & Heavy 1912 Lieutenant-Colonel ADC to the Duke of Connaught (until 1914) 1913 Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant Royal School of Artillery 14/09/1914 Brevet Colonel Promoted Temporary Brigadier LG 03/02/15 29/09/1914 Brigadier-General CRA - 1st Canadian Division Artillery 29/12/1914 Brigadier-General Promoted Temporary Brigadier LG 02/03/15 13/09/1915 Brigadier-General GOC - Royal Canadian Artillery 15/12/1916 Major-General GOC - 2nd Canadian Division LG 16/01/17 03/06/1917 Major-General ADC to the King LB 07/06/17 22/06/1919 Major-General Quartermaster-General NDHQ (end GOC) 1920 Major-General Inspector-General 1926 Lieutenant-General Retired with promotion to Lieutenant-General
Moved to Headbourne Worthy, Hampshire, England
Classmates at RMC
Henri Alexandre PANET 255 Robert Kellock SCOTT 258 Herbert Cyril THACKER 256
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13 Major-General Malcolm Smith MERCER, CB General Officer Commanding – 3rd Canadian Division Killed in Action on 03 June 1916 Most Senior Canadian Officer to ever die in Combat
Born: 17/09/1856 Etobicoke, Canada West (West of To) Married: Never Never Married Died: 03/06/1916 Mount Sorrel, Belgium in Combat
Medals:
17/07/1915 CB Major (Temp LCol) Irish Regiment 3x MID 3 times \ attached to Canadian Forces
Civilian
1885 Law Degree Osgoode Hall 1885 Lawyer / Barrister Toronto (Art Patron)
Military
1881 Private The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1885 Lieutenant The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1891 Captain The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1903 Brevet Major The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1909 Brevet Major Adjutant Bisley Rifle Competition England 1911 Lieutenant-Colonel CO, The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1913 Lieutenant-Colonel ADC to Sir Sam Hughes on European Tour 22/08/1914 Lieutenant-Colonel GOC - 1st Canadian Brigade at Camp Valcartier 25/09/1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Sailed with 1st Cdn Brigade to Great Britain 29/09/1914 Temp. Brigadier Promoted Temporary Brigadier LG 02/03/15+ 09/02/1915 Colonel (Temp.BGen) Promoted to Full Colonel 02/03/1916 Brigadier-General Promoted Temporary Brigadier 29/09/1915 Brigadier-General Promoted Temporary Brigadier LG 03/03/15+ 02/1915 Brigadier-General To France GOC - 1st Cdn Brigade, CEF 21/11/1915 Brigadier-General End GOC – 1st Canadian Division CEF 24/12/1915 Major-General GOC - 3rd Canadian Division LG 21/12/15+ 03/06/1916 Major-General Killed near Ypres (replaced by Lipsett)
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14 Major-General Sir Frederick Oscar Warren LOOMIS, KCB, CMG, DSO and Bar, VD General Officer Commanding – 3rd Canadian Division
Born: 02/02/1870 Sherbrooke, Quebec Married: Maggie Morrison Children 5 Sons – 2 Daughters Seven Died: 15/02/1937 Montreal, Quebec
Medals
12/07/1919 KCB Major-General 06/07/1918 CB T/Brigadier-General 28/07/1917 CMG T/Brigadier-General 17/01/19120 Bar to DSO Major-General 17/07/1915 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel 22/04/1917 Officer Legion of Honour France 21/08/1919+ Croix Croix de Guerre with Palme France 29/05/1920 Commander The Order of Leopold Belgium 7x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches VD Colonial Auxiliary Officer’s Decoration
Civilian General Contractor
Military
1886 Private Canadian Militia 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Command Royal Highlanders of Canada 06/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel 13th Canadian Battalion 16/03/1916 Brigadier-General GOC - 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade 3rd Division 05/06/1916 Brigadier-General End GOC 7th CIB 05/07/1916 Brigadier-General GOC - 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade 31/12/1916 Brigadier-General End GOC 2nd CIB 16/03/1918 Brigadier-General GOC - 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade (2nd Time) 12/09/1918 Brigadier-General End GOC 2nd CIB (2nd time) 13/09/1918 Major-General GOC - 3rd Canadian Division 11/04/1919 Major-General end GOC 3rd Cdn Division 1919 Retired Civilian Life
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15 Major-General Sir David WATSON, KCB, CMG GOC – 4th Canadian Division
Born: 07/02/1869 Quebec City, Quebec Married: 11/09/1893 Quebec City, Quebec Mary Ann Browning Children 3 Daughters Quebec City, Quebec 3 daughters Died: 19/02/1922 Quebec City, Quebec
Honours and Medals
26/01/1918 KCB Major-General 04/06/1917 CMG Major-General 12/12/1916 CB Temporary Brigadier-General 1915 Star 1914/15 Star 1918 Medal British War Medal 1918 Medal Victory Medal with MID 1911 Medal KGV Coronation 1909 Medal Colonel Auxiliary Long Service Medal 22/09/1917 Commander Ordre de Leopold Belgium 22/09/1917 Croix Croix de Guerre Belgium 21/08/1919+ Croix Croix de Guerre avec Palme France 7x MID Mentioned in Dispatches
Civilian
1891 Journalist Quebec Morning Chronicle 1901 Managing Director Quebec Morning Chronicle 1906 General Manager Quebec Morning Chronicle
Military
1889 Private 8th Regiment, Royal Rifles (and rose through ranks) 1900 Lieutenant 8th Regiment, Royal Rifles of Canada 1903 Captain 8th Regiment, Royal Rifles of Canada 1910 Major 8th Regiment, Royal Rifles of Canada 1912 LCol 8th Regiment, Royal Rifles of Canada 22/08/1914 LCol CO - 8th Regiment, Royal Rifles of Canada 11/09/1914 LCol CO - 2nd Canadian Infantry Battalion, CEF 30/08/1915 BGen GOC - 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade, CEF 21/04/1916 BGen End GOC 5th CIB 23/04/1916 MGen GOC - 4th Canadian Division, CEF 23/06/1919 MGen End GOC 4th Canadian Division 01/07/1919 MGen Home
1919 Owner Majority Owner Quebec Morning Chronicle
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16 Major-General Garnet Burk HUGHES, CB, CMG, DSO General Officer Commanding – 5th Canadian Division
Born: 22/04/1880 Toronto, Ontario Son of: Major-General Sir Sam Hughes Nephew of: Brigadier William St. Pierre HUGHES Colonel John Hughes Married: 1910 Elizabeth Irene Baylis Newling Victoria, B.C. Died: 13/08/1937 New York City, USA
Honours
06/07/1918 CB Major-General BCR 03/02/1917 CMG T/Brigadier GOC 5th Cdn Division 17/07/1915 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel 1st Cdn Infantry Brigade 4x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches
Civilian
Engineering and Industrial Work in Canada, England, Greece and Mexico
Military
Officer Cadet Royal Military College Kingston 19xx Officer 1913 Major 50th Battalion (Gordon Highlanders) Currie 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Brigade-Major 3rd Infantry Brigade (to Turner) 29/09/1914 Brevet LCol Brigade-Major 50th Reg. (Canada) LG 03/03/1915+ 26/05/1915 Brevet LCol Ends Brigade-Major Position 50th LG 06/07/1915+ 06/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel GSO2 – 1st Canadian Division 25/11/1915 Brigadier-General GOC – 1st Cdn Infantry Brigade LG 21/12/1915+ 06/1916 Brigadier-General 3 CIB at Ypres / Turner and Hughes Erred 03/02/1917 Major-General Promoted Temp. Major-General LG 16/02/1917+ 13/02/1917 Major-General End GOC – 1st Canadian Division 13/02/1917 Major-General GOC - 5th Canadian Div England LG 24/04/1919+ 13/02/1917 Major-General Seconded to British War Office 23/04/1919 Major-General Ceases Seconded to War Office LG 06/06/1919+ 24/04/1919 Major-General Retires in the British Isles LG 22/05/1919+
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Colonel John HUGHES Commanding Officer – Valcartier Camp
Brother of: Lieutenant-General Sir Sam Hughes
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17 Brigadier William St. Pierre HUGHES, DSO, VD GOC - 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 02 June 1864 Darlington Township, Ontario Brother of: LGen Sir Sam Hughes Married: Jesse Williams Macleod Died: 01 June 1940 Ottawa, Ontario
Honours and Medals
03/02/17 DSO T/Brigadier Cdn Infantry 15/11/16+ MID LCol 04/01/17+ MID LCol Northwest Medal with Saskatchewan Clasp 1914-1915 Star British War Medal Victory Medal with MID Colonial Auxiliary Officer’s Decoration Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal
Civilian Inspector of Penitentiaries
Military
24/04/1885 Served in Northwest Rebellion 90th Regiment Awarded Northwest Medal with Saskatchewan Clasp 28/10/1889 Lieutenant 14th Regiment, The Princess of Wales’ Own Rifles 15/03/1901 Captain 14th Regiment, The Princess of Wales’ Own Rifles 01/12/1909 Major Brigade-Major, 7th Infantry Brigade 18/01/1914 LCol CO - 14th Regiment 20/10/1914 LCol CO - 21st Battalion 15/09/1915 LCol CO - 21st Battalion to France 23/05/1916 Brigadier Promoted temporary Brigadier-General LG 27/07/1916+ 16/06/1916 Brigadier GOC - 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade LG 11/08/1916+ 18/01/1917 Brigadier Canadian HQ in London \ Corrects Promotion Date 01/05/1917 Brigadier GOC - Canadian Troops Crowborough 01/09/1917 Brigadier Canadian HQ in London 24/04/1918 Brigadier Returned to Canada 31/05/1918 Brigadier Retired / Placed on Reserve List of Officers
Held the Canadian Mile Record at one time. Inscription reads
"W1861 - 1940" ======
18 Major-General William Antrobus GRIESBACH, CB, CMG, DSO & Bar GOC – 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 03/01/1878 Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan Wife: 1906 Janet Scott Macdonald Lauder Died: 21/01/1945 Edmonton, Alberta
Honours
08/02/1919 CB Brigadier-General 26/01/1918 CMG Brigadier-General 17/01/1920 DSO and Bar Brigadier-General 29/07/1916 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel 6x MID
Civilian
1895 Law Office in Edmonton Worked in the Imperial Bank Worked in the milling business 1901 Opened his own law office as a Lawyer 12/1904 Alderman City of Edmonton 12/1906 Mayor of Edmonton (9th) – Youngest to date at age 28 12/1907 End Mayor of Edmonton 12/1917 Member of Parliament for Edmonton West (Conservative) 09/1921 Canadian Senator 01/1945 Died while a Canadian Senator
Military
1899 Trooper Canadian Mounted 1901 Trooper Returned to Canada Rifles South 1906 Lieutenant 19th Alberta Mounted Rifles 1907 Captain 19th Alberta Dragoons (renamed) 1914 Captain 2 i/c 19th Alberta Dragoons to Britain 12/1914 Major Commanding 49th Battalion 14/02/1917 Brigadier-General GOC - 1st Cdn Infantry Brigade, 1st Division 25/02/1919 Brigadier-General Return to Canada 09/1921 Major-General Promoted MGen; Retire from Army 07/1928 Honorary Colonel 19th Alberta Dragoons 02/1936 Honorary Colonel Ends term as Honorary Colonel 07/1941 Major-General Inspector-General for Western Canada 03/1944 Major-General Retired
19 Major-General William Antrobus GRIESBACH, CB, CMG, DSO & Bar General Officer Commanding – 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade
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20 Major-General George Eric McCUAIG, CMG, DSO and Bar, VD GOC – 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 02/09/1885 Toronto, Ontario Died: 21/03/1958 Montreal, Quebec
Honours
06/07/1918 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel Quebec Regiment 21/12/1918 DSO and Bar Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Infantry 03/01/1917 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Infantry 5X MID Mentioned-in-Despatches VD Colonial Auxiliary Volunteer Officer’s Decoration
Civilian
Student McGill University Stockbroker
Military
1909 Royal Highlanders of Canada (R.H. of C.) 23/09/1914 Lieutenant 13th Infantry Battalion CEF (R.H. of C.) 03/10/1915 Captain End Adjutant Position 13th Inf. LG 29/10/1915+ 13/10/1917 LCol Command of a Battalion 06/07/1918 LCol Resumes Command of a Battalion LG 06/07/1918+ 14/09/1918 Brigadier GOC – 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade 25/02/1919 Brigadier End GOC - 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade 26/02/1919 Brigadier GOC – 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade 14/04/1919 Brigadier End GOC position (Youngest General in CEF)
1942 Brigadier-General Camp Commandant Hamilton-Niagara Area 1945 Major-General Commandant Camp Borden Hon LCol 2nd Battalion Black Watch of Canada
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21 Brigadier-General John Fletcher Leopold EMBURY, CB, CMG, VD, KC General Officer Commanding – 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 01/11/1875 Thomasburg, Ontario Married: 10/08/1904 Dora A. Williams Children: 4 1 Daughter & 3 Sons Died: 13/08/1944 Regina, Saskatchewan
Honours
05/07/1919 CB Brigadier-General 01/07/1916 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel 1913 KC King’s Council
Civilian
1902 Graduated in Law from Osgoode Hall, Toronto 1902 Practiced Law in Barrie, Ontario 1903 Moved to Regina, Saskatchewan and practiced law \ Law Firm of Elwood, Embury, Scott & Graham 1913 Appointed King’s Council (KC) 1918 Judge of Saskatchewan Court of King’s Bench (while in the CEF) 1944 Died while still a judge
Military
1914 Lieutenant-Colonel 95th Regiment (Saskatchewan Rifles) 10/1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer 28th (Northwest) Battalion 1915 Lieutenant-Colonel 28th Battalion to Europe (2nd Division) 09/1916 Lieutenant-Colonel Wounded/replaced by LCol Alexander Ross (Somme) 11/1916 Brigadier-General GOC - 13th Cdn Infantry Brigade, 5th Cdn Div 01/01/1918 Brigadier-General GOC - 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade 15/03/1918 Brigadier-General Commanding Cdn Section at British General HQ 07/1918 Brigadier-General GOC Cdn Section at General HQ in France 05/1919 Brigadier-General Home to Canada
WWII Brigadier-General Senior Officer in Charge of Registration in Regina and Chair of the National War Services Board
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22 Brigadier-General Robert Percy CLARK, CMG, DSO, MC GOC – 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 17 April 1874 London, England Died: 08 April 1932 Vancouver, British Columbia
Honours
05/07/1919 CMG Brigadier-General 2 CIB - Quebec Regiment 26/01/1918 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Infantry 14/01/1916+ MC Captain 5th Infantry Battalion
Civilian 1895 London London Stock Exchange 1902 British Columbia Pursued various gold mining enterprises 1920 Real Estate Investor, Capitalist, Businessman in Vancouver
Military
1899 Enlisted British Army – served in the Boer War 29/09/1914 Captain Staff Captain – 5th (British Columbia) Regiment 04/11/1915 T/Major 7th Canadian Infantry Battalion (BC Regiment) 18/03/1916 Lieutenant-Colonel CO – 14th Cdn Infantry Battalion LG 14/04/1916+ 10/01/1917 Lieutenant-Colonel 2nd Cdn Infantry Battalion 02/10/1918 Brigadier-General Promoted Temporary BGen LG 12/11/1918+ 06/10/1918 Brigadier-General GOC – 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade 12/05/1919 Brigadier-General 2 CIB Disbanded
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23 Major-General Robert Gilmour Edwards LECKIE, CMG, DSO GOC – 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 04/06/1869 Halifax, Nova Scotia Married: Eileen Pearce Sunderland (No Children) Died: 22/06/1922 Vancouver, British Columbia
Honours
17/07/1915 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel 16th Cdn Infantry Battalion 2x MID Mentioned in Despatches 1900 Medal Queen’s South Africa (QSA) \ with bars Transvaal & South Africa 1902 1904 Medal African General Service Medal \ with bar Somaliland 1902-04 1919 WWI Trio 1914/15 Star, BWM, Victory Medal with MID
Civilian
1895 BSc King’s College, Windsor, Nova Scotia 1896 Civil Engineer Maritimes 1898 Civil Engineer British Columbia
Military
1895 Cadet Royal Military College (Sword of Honour) 1891 Lieutenant 75th Regiment 1892 Captain 75th Regiment 1895 Major 75th Regiment 1896 Major 8th Princess Louise’s New Brunswick Hussars 04/1900 Major Sqd Cdr - 2nd Cdn Mounted Rifles – South Africa 14/01/1902 Major 2nd CMR – Sailed from Halifax for S.A. 13/02/1902 Major 2nd CMR – Arrived Cape Town, S.A. - 2nd tour 1903 Major Explorations in British Somaliland, East Africa 1904 Major British Forces Somaliland - Mad Mullah War 1905 Major OC ‘A’ Squadron 2nd Cdn Mounted Rifles 11/1910 Lieutenant-Colonel CO – 72nd Highlanders on formation of the unit 04/1911 Lieutenant-Colonel CO – 72nd renamed Seaforth Highlanders of Canada 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel CO – 18th Canadian Infantry Battalion 12/08/1915 Brigadier-General GOC – 3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Division 17/02/1916 Brigadier-General Wounded 18/02/1915 – Invalided to Canada 09/1916 Brigadier-General Acting Chief of General Staff 05/12/1916 Brigadier-General Relinquishes Appointment CGS LG 09/12/1916+ 12/1916 Major-General GOC – MD #11 British Columbia & Yukon 1919 Major-General Retires
3rd Canadian Infantry Battalion is Perpetuated by Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada Toronto Regiment ======
24 Major-General Robert R. RENNIE, CB, CMG, DSO, MVO, VD GOC – 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 15/12/1862 York County, Ontario Married: 1891 Marion Ross Died: 17/12/1949 Toronto, Ontario
Civilian 1921 Seed Merchant President – The William Rennie Seed Company 1926 Retired Retired
Honours
06/07/1918 CB Brigadier-General Central Ontario Regiment 03/02/1917 CMG Brigadier-General 4th Canadian Infantry Division 12/02/1916 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel 3rd Canadian Infantry Battalion 20/11/1910+ MVO Major 1 Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 07/06/1919+ Croix Croix de Guerre BGen 1st Central Ontario Regiment
Military
07/1880 Rifleman Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada – expert shot Bisley 07/1887 Provisional 2nd Lt Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 13/08/1887 2nd Lieutenant Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 16/11/1888 Lieutenant Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 22/04/1892 Captain Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 20/09/1910 Major Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada MVO LG 20/09/1910+ 1914 LCol CO – 3rd Canadian Infantry Battalion 1915 LCol Toronto Regiment - Ypres 17/11/1915 T/Brigadier GOC – 4th Cdn Infantry Battalion LG 17/12/1915+ 25/09/1917 Brigadier-General He broke his collar-bone when thrown from a horse 14/09/1918 Brigadier-General Area Commander LG 15/10/1918+ 14/09/1918 Brigadier-General Replaced as GOC by BGen McCuaig LG 22/10/1918+ 26/02/1919 Brigadier-General GOC – 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade 12/05/1919 Brigadier-General 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade disbanded 06/1919 Brigadier-General Returns to Canada 06/06/1921 Major-General Promoted Major-General – retired 01/12/1936 Honorary LCol Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 01/03/1939 Honorary Colonel Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada until his death
Medals of Major-General Robert R. RENNIE, CB, CMG, DSO, MVO, VD
CB – CMG – DSO – MVO – 1914/15 Star – British War Medal – Victory Medal with MID – King George V Silver Jubilee – King George VI Coronation – Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officer’s Decoration – Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Services Medal and Bar – Croix de Guerre (France)
25 Major-General Robert R. RENNIE, CB, CMG, DSO, MVO, VD GOC – 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade
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26 Major-General The Honourable Archibald Hayes MACDONELL, CMG, DSO GOC – 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade Senator
Born: 06/02/1868 Toronto, Ontario Died: 12/11/1939 Toronto, Ontario
Honours
01/07/1916 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel 27/09/1901+ DSO Captain (Canadian Mounted Rifles) 16/05/1901+ MID Mentioned-in-Despatches S.A. Captain 3x WWI MID Mentioned-in-Despatches WWI BGen
Military
1886 Militia 1892 Permanent Corps 1899 Brevet Major South Africa (MID x2, DSO, Queen’s Medal 4 Bars) 1902 Brevet Major Africa General Service Medal 1902 with 7 Clasps 1902 Brevet Major Aro 1901-1902 for Southern Nigeria Eleko Expedition, Olokero Expedition Afiko Expedition, Mkpani Expedition Northern Ibibio, Okokum 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Canadian Artillery, 1st Canadian Division 1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer Royal Canadian Regiment 1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Commander Royal Canadian Artillery, 1st Division 22/03/1916 Brigadier-General GOC - 5th Cdn Infantry Brigade 22/07/1917 Brigadier-General Return to Canada 11/1917 Brigadier-General Organized New Brunswick into a Military District 11/1921 Major-General Retire – appointed to the Senate 01/1922 Major-General Actual date of Retirement from Permanent Force 11/1939 Senator Dies while member of the Senate
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27 Major-General Thomas Louis TREMBLAY, CB, CMG, DSO, ED GOC – 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 16/05/1886 Chicoutimi, Quebec Died: 28/03/1951 Quebec City, Quebec
Honours
08/01/1944 CB Major-General Inspector General 06/07/1918 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel 5 CIB Quebec Regiment 03/02/1917 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Infantry 28/07/1917 Officer Legion of Honour (France) LCol WW1 MID Mentioned-in-Despatches
Civilian
09/1907 Civil Engineer Transcontinental Railway 08/1914 Joins Canadian Expeditionary Force -WWI- 1920 Chief Engineer Plus General Manager Quebec Harbour 1925 Member Maclean Royal Commission Study BC-Alaska Highway 1926 Returns Quebec Harbour 1936 Member National Harbours Board 1939 Joins Canadian Army
Military
1904 Cadet Royal Military College Cadet # 1907 Cadet Graduates 1914 Lieutenant Joins CEF – First Division 1915 Major 2 i/c Royal 22nd Regiment (Van Doos) 24/01/1916 LCol CO Royal 22nd Regiment LG 07/03/16+ 10/08/1918 Brigadier GOC – 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade 09/05/1919 Brigadier Returns Home 09/1939 Major-General Inspector General of the Army for Eastern Canada 01/1944 Major-General Retires from Canadian Army 1945 Honorary Col Royal 22nd Regiment 1945 Honorary Col Les Voltigeurs de Quebec
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28 Major-General John Munro ROSS, CMG, DSO and Bar, VD GOC – 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade (and 10th)
Born: 02/07/1877 West Zorra, Ontario Married: 23/12/1903 Anne Jean Duncan – Died 1937 Children: 3 1 Son John David; Daughter Kathleen Married: 20/04/1938 Mary Gertrude Meredith – Died 1948 Died: 28/01/1959 London, Ontario
Civilian
1896 To University University of Toronto 1898 Joined RCR Joined the RCR for service in South Africa 1901 McGill University Received a degree 1905 Woodstock Mill Owned by his Father 1913 Moved to Vancouver Insurance Business
Honours
08/02/1918 CMG Brigadier-General British Columbia Regiment 26/01/1918 DSO Bar T/Brigadier-General Canadian Infantry 03/02/1917 DSO Major Canadian Infantry MID Mentioned-in-Depatches (Four times) VD Colonial Auxiliary Volunteer Officer’s Decoration
Military
1896 Oxford Rifles 1899 ‘B’ Company Royal Cdn Regiment – to South Africa 1900 Attached to Grey’s Horse 1900 Wounded in South Africa – Queen’s Medal 2 Clasps 1904 Lieutenant Oxford Rifles, 22nd Battalion 1905 Lieutenant 9th Grey Horse 1914 Major 29 Vancouver Battalion CEF 14/10/1915 A/LCol Commander – 28 Cdn Inf Battalion LG 24/11/1916+ 16/12/1916 Major Relinquishes Acting LCol on ceasing to command Bn. 23/07/1917 Brigadier GOC – 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade (at Vimy Ridge) 09/08/1918 Brigadier Wounded – leaves command 28/10/1918 Brigadier GOC – 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade LG 06/12/1918+ 23/01/1919 Brigadier End GOC - 10 CIB 1919 Major-General GOC Military District 12 in Regina 1932 Major-General Command of Military District in London, Ontario
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29 Major-General Huntley Douglas Brodie KETCHEN, CB, CMG GOC – 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 22/05/1872 Sholopore, India (Father in Indian Army) Immigrated: 1894 To Canada Married: 1895 Margaret Elizabeth Robinson Children 3 3 Sons Died: 1959 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Honours
06/07/1918 CB Brigadier-General Lord Strathcona’s Horse 03/02/1917 CMG Brigadier-General GOC 6th CIB 28/07/1917 Officer Legion of Honour BGen France Croix Croix de Guerre with Palmes Belgium 8x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 1900 QSA Queen’s South Africa Medal with 2 Clasps
Civilian
1932 to 1945 MPP Member of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly 1941 to 1943 MPP Leader of the Opposition
Military
1890 Cadet Royal Military College Sandhurst 1890 2nd Lieutenant Imperial Army 1893 2nd Lieutenant Leaves Imperial Army – immigrates to Canada 1894 Constable Northwest Mounted Police 1900 Lieutenant Strathcona’s Horse in South Africa 04/1901 Lieutenant Joins Cdn Permanent Force – Royal Canadian Dragoons 04/1902 Brevet Captain Canadian Mounted Rifles 1904 Brevet Captain District Staff Adjutant Military District #10 1908 Brevet Captain Adjutant, Western Cavalry, Quebec Tercentennary 02/1909 Captain Royal Canadian Mounted Rifles 04/1909 Major Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) 1911 Major Adjutant Mounted Troops King George V Coronation 1912 Major Assistant Adjutant-General Military District #10 1914 Major Squadron Commander Lord Strathcona’s Horse 01/01/1915 Colonel GOC - 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade 25/06/1915 Brigadier GOC – 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade 09/1915 Brevet Colonel GOC – 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade 20/04/1918 Brigadier End GOC 6 CIB 06/1919 Major-General Promoted Major-General 10/10/1919 Major-General DOC – MD #10 Manitoba 1928 Major-General Retired to Pension
30 Major-General Huntley Douglas Brodie KETCHEN, CB, CMG GOC – 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade Medals
CB – DSO – Queen’s South Africa Medal with 2 Clasps – 1914/1915 Star – British War Medal – Victory Medal with MID – George V Coronation Medal – George V Jubilee Medal – George VI Coronation Medal – Officer, Legion of Honour (France) – Croix de Guerre with palms (Belgium)
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31 Major-General James George ROSS, CMG, VD Paymaster General
Born: 18/10/1861 Montreal, Quebec Married: 25/03/1891 Margaret Alice Monk of Montreal Children: 2 2 Daughters Died: 1956 Montreal, Quebec probably
Honours
10/03/1917 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 1907 VD Colonial Auxiliary Volunteer Officer’s Decoration
Civilian
1881 Graduated Ontario Agricultural College Guelph 1882 C.A. Chartered Accountant – P.S. Ross & Sons President Ross Realty Company Ltd.
Military
1879 Lieutenant 1st Ontario Field Battery 1883 Lieutenant Retired from Ontario Field Battery 1884 Lieutenant Victoria Rifles 1891 Captain Retired from the Victoria Rifles 1898 Lieutenant 5th Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) 1899 Captain 5th Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) 08/1906 Major 5th Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) 05/1909 Lieutenant-Colonel 5th Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer Cdn Bisley Rifle Team 1915 Brigadier-General Paymaster-General Cdn Mil. Overseas Council 08/05/1918 Brigadier-General Paymaster-General 1919 Major-General Retired with the rank of Major-General
1938 Honorary Colonel Honorary Colonel Commandant RCAPC 1948 Major-General End Honorary Colonel Commandant RCAPC
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32 Major-General Arthur Henry Bell, CMG, DSO GOC – 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 16/09/1871 Bauagher, King’s County, Ireland Died: 23/11/1956 Ottawa, Ontario
Honours
06/07/1918 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel Alberta Regiment 03/02/1917 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Infantry 07/06/1919+ Croix Croix de Guerre France Brigadier-General 6x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 1900 QSA Queen’s South Africa Medal with 3 Clasps 1901 KSA King’s South Africa Medal with 2 Clasps Ashanti Medal
Military
1900 Captain Service in South Africa 23/01/1904 Captain Resigns Commission * LG 02/02/1904+ 23/03/1907 Captain Promoted Royal Engineers LG 05/04/1907+ 1914 Major Staff Adjutant Military District #13 03/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel CO - 31st Battalion (6th Brigade 2nd Division) 21/04/1918 Brigadier-General GOC – 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade 02/10/1918 Brigadier-General End GOC 6th CIB LG 14/11/1918+ 1919 Brigadier-General Remained in Permanent Forces 1933 Major-General Adjutant-General Canadian Militia ? 1935 Major-General Retired
* = 3rd Battalion, the Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
Medals of Major-General Arthur Henry Bell, CMG, DSO GOC – 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) - Distinguished Service Order (DSO) - Ashanti Medal - South Africa – first medal Queen Victoria with 3 bars - South Africa (2nd medal King Edward VII) with 2 bars - 1914-1915 Star - British War Medal - Victory Medal with MID - Croix de Guerre (France)
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33 His Honour Brigadier-General Alexander ROSS, OC, CMG, DSO, KC, LLD(Hon) GOC – 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 1880 Forres, Harayshire, Scotland Immigrated: 1889 Regina Married: Beatrice Scott (First Wife died very young in 1907) Died: 19/10/1973 Yorkton, Saskatchewan
Honours
26/06/1971 SM / OC BGen / Judge / Converted to OC in 1972 08/02/1919 CMG Brigadier-General GOC 6 CIB 08/11/1918 DSO and Bar Lieutenant-Colonel 15/09/1917 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel 7x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 1914 KC King’s Council 1955 LLD(Hon) University of Saskatchewan
Civilian
1897 Teacher’s Certificate Kronu, Saskatchewan 1898 Janitor / Office Boy Law firm of James Balfour 1900 Notary Public Regina (could not practice law until age 21) 1901 Lawyer Weyburn – Law Firm of T.C. Johnstone 1906 Agent of the AG Agent of the Attorney General Regina 1912 End Appointment - WWI – 1921 Judge District Court of the District of Yorkton 1934 Dominion President Canadian Legion 1938 Dominion President Ends (Still a Judge) 1941 Director Saskatchewan Civil Defense 1943 Dominion Director Canadian Civil Defense 1945 Judge Yorkton
Military
07/1905 Lieutenant 95th Saskatchewan Rifles 1906 Captain Adjutant 95th Saskatchewan Rifles 1908 Major Regina Rifles (Second in Command) 08/1914 Captain 28th Northwest Battalion (‘B’ Company Commander) 1914 Major Brigade Major – 28th Battalion (Regina Rifles) 01/1914 Captain # Regina Rifles Company to Winnipeg for the winter 06/1915 Major 2nd in Command again – promoted – to England 25/09/1915 Major 28th Battalion enters Trenches at De Groute Farm 30/01/1916 T/LCol CO - 5th Cdn Infantry Battalion LG 15/02/1916+ 08/1916 Lieutenant-Colonel CO – 28th Battalion (The Somme)* 09/04/1917 Lieutenant-Colonel CO - 28th Battalion at Vimy Ridge ** 06/1919 Brigadier-General GOC - Military District #12 09/1920 Brigadier-General Retired from the Army
World War II
WWII Saskatchewan Director for civil defense Dominion director for civil defense
* Replaced LCol J.L.M. Embury, who had been wounded. ** He used the phrase, “A nation was born” to describe the Vimy Ridge victory. # Ottawa decided Company Commanders should only be Captains so he was demoted
His life story is told on the Yorkton Legion website
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34 Brigadier-General Hugh Marshall DYER, CB, CMG, DSO and Bar GOC – 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 28/01/1861 Kingston, County Cork, Irleand Married: 03/03/1882 Helen May Pearson at Plympton, Devonshire Children: 4 4 Sons Brother 1 LCol William Alexander Dyer, OC 10th Battalion Immigrated: 1891 Minnedosa, Manitoba Died: 25/12/1938 Minnedosa, Manitoba
Honours
08/02/1919 CB Brigadier-General 12th Dragoons Sask Regiment 26/01/1918 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel GOC 7th CIB 22/09/1917 Bar to DSO Lieutenant-Colonel 12/12/1916 DSO Major 5x MID MID 5x
Civilian
1881 Farmer Manitoba 1908 One of the Founders Manitoba Agricultural College 1914 Board Member Manitoba Agricultural College 1908 to 1914
Military
1903 Lieutenant Manitoba Dragoons (Minnedosa) 1909 Captain Manitoba Dragoons (Minnedosa) 1913 Major Manitoba Dragoons (Minnedosa) 1914 Major 2 i/c Manitoba Dragoons (5th Cdn Infantry Battn) 1915 Major To France with the Manitoba Dragoons 05/1915 Major Severely wounded at the 2nd Battle of Ypres 30/01/1916 Lieutenant-Colonel CO – 5th Cdn Infantry Battalion * LG 15/02/16+ 29/06/1917 Brigadier-General GOC – 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade 11/09/1918 Brigadier-General End GOC - 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade 12/09/1918 Brigadier-General Area Commander LG 15/10/1918 04/1919 Brigadier-General Brigade Disbanded
7th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry The Royal Canadian Regiment The 42nd Battalion (Royal Highland Regiment) from Montreal The 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment) from Edmonton
* 5th Canadian Infantry Battalion = Manitoba Dragoons
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35 Brigadier-General George Stuart TUXFORD, CB, CMG, DSO and Bar, ED General Officer Commanding – 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 07/02/1870 Penmorfa, Carnavonshire, North Wales Immigrated: Late 1888 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Died: 04/02/1943 Victoria, B.C.
Civilian 1889 Moose Jaw Rancher
Honours
28/07/1917 CB Brigadier-General 12/02/1916 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel 08/02/1919 Bar to DSO Brigadier-General 15/11/1919 DSO Brigadier-General 22/05/1916 Officer Legion of Honour (France) 8X MID Mentioned-in-Despatches ED Efficiency Decoration 1937 Medal King George VI Coronation medal
Civilian
1890 Farmer
Military
07/1905 Lieutenant 16th Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan) 1910 Major OC ‘D’ Squadron 16th Mounted Rifles Moose Jaw 1912 Lieutenant-Colonel CO 27th Light Horse (above unit renamed) 08/1914 Lieutenant-Colonel OC 5th (Western Cavalry) 2nd Cdn Inf. Battalion 02/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Takes 5th Western Cavalry to England and France 22/04/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Front Lines 2nd Battle of Ypres \ 2nd Inf Bg. 12/03/1916 Brigadier-General GOC - 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade (1st Div.) 22/05/1919 Brigadier-General Longest Serving Brigade Cdr CEF
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36 Brigadier-General John Arthur CLARK, CMG, DSO, VD, CD, QC, LLD, MP GOC – 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 08/06/1881 Dundas, Ontario Married: 24/05/1914 Jean A. McGillivray Died: 18/01/1976 Vancouver, B.C.
Honours
05/07/1919 CMG Brigadier-General GOC 7th Cdn Infantry Brigade 18/01/1919 DSO & 2 Bars Lieutenant-Colonel 72nd Battalion BC Regiment 13/10/1917 DSO & Bar Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Infantry 28/07/1917 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Infantry 5x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches QC Queen’s Council 04/09/1952 LLD(Hon) University of British Columbia
Civilian
1909 Graduate Law from Osgoode Hall – B.A. U. of Toronto 1909 Lawyer Law Firm of Wilson and Clark 06/12/1921 MP Member of Parliament Conservative Burrard 29/10/1925 MP Member of Parliament Conservative Vancouver-Burrard 14/09/1926 MP Member of Parliament Conservative Vancouver-Burrard 28/07/1930 End MP No Longer Member of Parliament 1930 Lawyer Returns to Law in Vancouver 1952 President Canadian Bar Association
Military
1903 Lieutenant 77th Regiment of Volunteers (Dundas) 1909 Lieutenant 77th Regiment of Volunteers ends 11/1910 Captain Seaforth Highlanders of Canada (Vancouver) 10/1914 Major Seaforth Highlanders of Canada 15/07/1915 LCol Commanding Officer 72nd Battalion (Seaforths) 08/1916 LCol CO - 72nd Battalion to France 1917 LCol Battles at Ypres, the Somme and Vimy Ridge 12/09/1918 Brigadier GOC – 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade 30/04/1919 Brigadier Ends command 7th CIB – returns home
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37 Major-General Victor Wentworth ODLUM, CB, CMG, DSO and Bar, VD, LLD GOC – 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 21/10/1880 Coboug, Ontario Went to: 1887 Tokyo (learned to speak Japanese) Married: 1904 Teresa Rogerson (died 1970) Died: 04/04/1971 Vancouver
Honours
26/07/1918 CB Companion – Order of the Bath CB 28/07/1917 CMG Companion – Order of St. Michael & St. George 22/01/1916 DSO Distinguished Service Order 18/01/1919 DSO and Bar Bar to the Distinguished Service Order 8x (WWI) MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 14/04/1917 2nd Class Order of Danilo 2nd Class (Montengro)
Civilian
1901 Reporter Daily World 1904 Editor Daily World 1905 Editor Nelson Daily News 1908 Financial & Insurance Winnipeg 1910 Financial & Insurance Vancouver 1923 General Victor Odlum and Colonel Albert Malcolm "Buster" Brown formed Odlum Brown & Company as a partnership 1940 Left to join Cdn Army Vancouver 1945 Ambassador Turkey Vancouver Albert & Tom Brown ran Odlum Brown
Military
1899 Private 2nd Special Svc Battalion RCR –South Africa 01/1902 Lieutenant Commissioned in S.A. with the 3 CMR LG 22/08/02+ 1902 Lieutenant 48th Highlanders Toronto 1902 Lieutenant 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Regiment Vancouver 1910 Captain 100th Winnipeg Grenadiers 1913 Captain Irish Fusiliers of Canada 1914 Major Irish Fusiliers of Canada CEF 1914 Major 2 i/c - 7th Cdn Infantry Battalion 1915 LCol CO - 7th Cdn Infantry Battalion BC Regiment 04/07/1916 Brigadier GOC - 11th Cdn Infantry Brigade (4th Cdn Division) 23/06/1919 Brigadier Command Vancouver Garrison (NPAM) 1920 Brigadier Commanding Officer 23rd Brigade 1926 Brigadier To Reserve of Militia Officers 01/10/1930 Honorary Col Irish Fusiliers (Vancouver Regiment) 01/06/1936 Honorary Col End period as Honorary Colonel 20/05/1940 Major-General GOC - 2nd Canadian Infantry Division WWII 01/11/1941 Major-General Retired from Canadian Army to be Ambassador
Canadian Ambassador
11/1941 Major-General Canadian Ambassador to Australia 04/1943 Major-General Canadian Ambassador to China 10/1946 Major-General retired Returned to Canada 09/1947 Major-General retired Canadian Ambassador to Turkey 1952 Major-General retired Returned to Canada 1964 Publisher Vancouver Times
38 Medals of Major-General Victor Wentworth ODLUM, CB, CMG, DSO*,VD, LLD
CB Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Bath (WWII) CMG Companion of the Order of St. Michael & St. George (WWI) DSO and Bar Distinguished Service Order and Bar Queen's South Africa Medal with 4 Bars 1914/15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal with MID Defence Medal CVSM with Clasp 1939/45 War Medal 1935 Jubilee 1937 Coronation EIIR Coronation Colonial Auxiliary Force Long Service Medal Colonial Auxiliary Force Officer’s Decoration (VD) Order of Danilo 2nd Class (Montengro)
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39 Major-General Victor Arthur Seymour WILLIAMS, CMG GOC - 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 02 June 1876 Port Hope, Ontario Married: 23 October 1890 Helen Euphemia Sutherland Died: 12 December 1949 Toronto, Ontario
Honours
13/03/1920 CMG Brigadier-General Canadian Forces 10/09/1901+ MID Mentioned-in-Despatches of Earl Roberts
Civilian
1886 Constable North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) 07/04/1922 Commissioner Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) \ (Followed MGen Elliot) 03/09/1939 Chief Commander Retires from the OPP
Military
08/1884 Cadet Royal Military College Kingston Cadet # 12/07/1886 Constable Leaves RMC – joins North-West Mounted Police 14/12/1887 Inspector North-West Mounted Police 28/09/1889 Private Company of Mounted Infantry in Winnipeg 10/06/1890 Lieutenant Receives Commission in the Royal Canadian Dragoons 1892 Lieutenant Attached 5th Dragoon Guards in Aldershot for course 01/06/1898 Captain RC Dragoons – OC Military District #10 Winnipeg 21/01/1899 Major Leave Halifax Commander ‘B’ Squadron Cdn Mnt Rifles 17/02/1899 Major Arrive Cape Town, South Africa 1899 Major Canadian Mounted Rifles 1900 Major OC ‘B’ Squadron Canadian Mounted Rifles 08/05/1902 Major CO 3 CMR – Leave Halifax S.S.Cestrian 08/05/1902 Lieutenant-Col CO 3 CMR - Promoted LCol in S.A. LG 22/08/02+ 31/05/1902 Major CO 3 CMR – Arrive Cape Town (2nd Tour) 1902 Brevet Colonel Commandant Royal School of Cavalry in Toronto 1907 Brevet Colonel CO Royal Cdn Dragoons – Inspector of Cavalry Canada 1911 Brevet Colonel Commanded Mounted Units Coronation King George V 01/01/1912 Brevet Colonel Adjutant General in Ottawa / ADC to the GG 1914 Brevet Colonel Commander Valcartier Camp, Quebec 1914 Brevet Colonel Overseas with the 1st Canadian Division 1915 Brevet Colonel General Staff of Field Marshal Sir John French 1915 Brevet Colonel General Staff of the 2nd and 3rd British Army Corps 28/12/1915 Brigadier GOC – 8th Canadian Infantry Division (3rd Division) 02/06/1916 Brigadier Severely Wounded and became a POW at Mont Sorrel 1918 Brigadier Released in a prisoner exchange 1919 Major-General General Officer Commanding MD #2 Toronto 1921 Major-General General Officer Commanding MD #3 Kingston 1922 Major-General Leaves Canadian Military for OPP
07/04/1922 Commissioner Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) after MGen Elliot 03/09/1939 Chief Commander Retires from the OPP
40 Major-General Victor Arthur Seymour WILLIAMS, CMG GOC - 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Medals (Sold at Auction April 2010 Plato Auctions (St. Catherines)
CMG Queen’s South Africa Medal 1914/1915 Star British War Medal Victory Medal with MID King Edward VII Coronation Medal King George V Coronation Medal King George V Silver Jubilee Medal
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41 Major-General James Harold ELMSLEY, CB, CMG, DSO GOC – 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 1878 Toronto, Ontario Married: Florence Athol Gordon Boulton Children: 2 1 Son; 1 Daughter Died: 03/01/1954
Honours
06/07/1918 CB Brigadier-General Royal Canadian Dragoons 28/07/1917 CMG Brigadier-General GOC 8th CIB 01/07/1916 DSO Brevet LCol Royal Canadian Dragoons 19/08/1921+ 2nd Class Order of the Sacred Treasure Japan 12/07/1918+ Croix Croix de Guerre Belgium 29/10/1920+ Croix Croix de Guerre Czecho-Slovak Republic 5x WWI MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 1900 QSA 5 Clasps 1902 KSA 2 Clasps
Military
27/01/1899 Lieutenant 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles – Leave Halifax 21/03/1899 Lieutenant 2nd CMR – Arrive Cape Town, S.S. Pomeranian 1899 Lieutenant 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles - South Africa 1900 Lieutenant Badly Wounded – QSA with 5 Clasps; KSA 2 Clasps 1900 Lieutenant Returned to Canada 14/01/1902 Captain 2nd CMR – Leave Halifax (2nd tour in S.A.) 14/01/1902 Major Promoted T/Major 2nd Cdn Mtd Rifles LG 22/08/1902+ 21/02/1902 Major 2nd CMR – Arrive Cape Town (R.C.D.) 27/06/1902 Captain Returned to Canada on the Winifredian 24/07/1905 Captain Substantive Rank of Captain LG 20/11/1906+ 1906 Captain Serving with the Imperial Army 1907 Major Promoted Substantive Major 1913 Major Staff College Camberley 1914 Major Chief of Staff Military District #2 Toronto 1914 Major Second in Command RC Dragoons – overseas 1st Div. 1915 Brevet LCol Staff 1st Canadian Division 13/09/1915 Brevet LCol End Brigade Major 8th CIB LG 12/11/1915+ 19/06/1916 Brigadier GOC – 8th Canadian Infantry 25/05/1918 Brigadier End GOC 8th Canadian Infantry LG 08/08/1918+ 27/06/1918 Major-General Command Canadian Forces in Siberia LG 27/07/1918+ 10/1918 Major-General Canadian Forces land in Siberia (4,192 strong) 04/1919 Major-General Leave Siberia 1928 Major-General DOC – Military District #10 1929 Major-General Retire
Below: Major-General Elmsley with Lieutenant-Governor of Ont. Lionel Clarke.
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42 Brigadier-General Dennis Colburne DRAPER, CMG, DSO and Bar GOC – 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 20/01/1875 Sutton Junction, Brome Region, Quebec Died: 08/11/1951 Toronto, Ontario
Honours
08/02/1919 CMG Brigadier-General 8th Cdn Infantry Brigade 10/08/1918 DSO and Bar Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Mounted Rifles * 16/09/1916 DSO T/Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Mounted Rifles ** 07/01/1919 Croix Croix de Guerre France BGen 3x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches Battle of Arras and Amiens
* DSO Battle of Mount Sorrel ** Passchendaele
Civilian
1893c Studies Law McGill University 1895c Dropped Out Worked with International Paper Company of Quebec 1919 Worked Abibibi Power and Paper Company 1928 Chief Constable Toronto Police Department * 1946 Chief Constable Retired from the Toronto Police Department
* City wanted a Disciplinarian as Chief
Military preWWI Canadian Militia 01/06/1915 Major 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles 02/06/1916 LCol Commanding Officer - 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles 1918 LCol Quebec Regiment 27/06/1918 Brigadier GOC - 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade LG 08/08/18+ 11/04/1919 Brigadier Ends GOC - 8th CIB
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43 Brigadier-General Frederick William HILL, CB, CMG, DSO, VD, KC GOC – 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 28/07/1866 Welland, Ontario Married: 1894 Henrietta Johnson Child: 1 Daughter Died: 12/03/1954 Fredericton, New Brunswick
Honours
08/02/1919 CB Brigadier-General Western Ontario Regiment 26/01/1918 CMG Brigadier-General 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade 12/02/1916 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade 6x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 1921 KC King’s Council
Civilian
1891 Lawyer Niagara Falls, Ontario 1898-1902 Mayor Town of Niagara Falls 1930 Lawyer Fredericton, New Brunswick 1930-1931 Commissioner New Brunswick Provincial Police
Military
1884 Private ‘K’ Company, Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada Toronto 1886 Provisional Lt 44th Lincoln and Welland Regiment 1914 LCol CO - Lincoln and Welland Regiment 22/09/1914 LCol CO (Original) - 1st Battalion CEF – in Valcartier 10/02/1915 LCol To France 17/01/1916 LCol Ends GOC – 1st Battalion CEF 07/01/1917 Brigadier GOC - 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade (Vimy Ridge) 22/05/1918 Brigadier Ends GOC – 9th CIB (which included Passchendaele) 21/07/1918 Brigadier Ends Attachment To HQ Units 1920 Brigadier Commander Military District #7 1930 Brigadier Retires 1931 Honorary Col Honorary Colonel Carleton and York Regiment
44 Brigadier-General Frederick William HILL, CB, CMG, DSO, VD, KC GOC – 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Medals Companion of the Order of the Bath CB Companion of the Order of St. Michael & St. George CMG Distinguished Service Order DSO 1914/1915 Star British War Medal Victory Medal with MID King George V Silver Jubilee Medal King George VI Coronation Medal Colonel Auxiliary Forces Volunteer Decoration VD Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal
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45 Brigadier-General Daniel Mowat ORMOND, CMG, DSO and Bar GOC – 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 14/08/1885 Pembroke, Ontario Married: 1910 Ann Laura Cadham Children 5 1 Son; 4 Daughters Died: 19/11/1974 Ottawa, Ontario
Honours
08/02/1919 CMG Brigadier-General 9th CIB (Alberta Regiment) 12/04/1918 DSO and Bar Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Infantry 01/09/1917 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Infantry 25/09/1915 3rd Class Order of St. Stanislas Russia with Swords Major 07/01/1919+ Croix Croix de Guerre France 3x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 3x
Civilian
Military
04/1915 Major Adjutant – 10th Battalion, CEF 04/1915 Major Commanding Officer – 10th Battalion, CEF 23/04/1916 Major Wounded (CO for one day 22 to 23 April 1915) 05/1915 Major Commanding Officer – 10th Battalion, CEF * 25/09/1916 LCol Commanding Officer – 10th Battalion, CEF (Somme) 11/1916 LCol CO – 10th Battalion, CEF (Vimy Ridge) 26/05/1918 Brigadier GOC – 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade 19/02/1919 Brigadier End GOC - 9th CIB 21/07/1918 Brigadier Attached to HQ Units 1919 Brigadier GOC – Military District #12 Saskatchewan 1923 Brigadier End GOC MD #12
* = For five days 28 May 1915 to 02 June 1915
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46 Major-General Edward HILLIAM, CB, CMG, DSO GOC – 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 12/1863 Willesby Hall, Spalding Married: Letitia Wallace No Children Died: 21/05/1949 Vancouver, B.C.
Honours
05/07/1919 CB Brigadier-General Nova Scotia Regiment 28/07/1917 CMG Brigadier-General 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade 06/07/1918 DSO and Bar Brigadier-General Nova Scotia Regiment 12/02/1916 DSO Brigadier-General 5 Canadian Infantry Brigade 28/12/1918 Chevalier Legion of Honour France – BGen – Nova Scotia Reg Croix Croix de Guerre France – with 3 Palm Leaves 11x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches
Civilian
1893 Constable Royal Northwest Mounted Police 1900 Corporal Canadian Mounted Rifles - Boer War 1905 Farmer Shuswap Area, British Columbia
Military
1883 Private 17th Lancers 1893 Constable Royal Northwest Mounted Police 1900 Corporal Canadian Mounted Rifles – South Africa 1902 Corporal South African Constabulary 1905 Retired Retired – Fruit Rancher in British Columbia 1914 Captain Adjutant – 5th Canadian Battalion 1914 Captain Nova Scotia Regiment 15/10/15 Lieutenant-Colonel CO - 5th Canadian Infantry Battalion LG 08/11/15 18/01/17 Brigadier-General GOC – 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade LG 16/02/17 11/11/17 Brigadier-General End GOC 10th CIB 03/1919 Brigadier-General Relinquish Appt Brigade Cdr and BGen LG 18/12/19 17/05/19 Brigadier-General Ceases to be seconded to War Office LG 28/05/19 1919 Major-General While with the Imperial Forces 1919 Major-General Retire
Medals
CB CMG DSO and Bar Queen’s South Africa King’s South Africa 1914-1915 Star British War Medal Victory Medal with MID King George V1 Coronation Medal Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (France) Croix de Guerre with 3 palm leaves (France)
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47 Brigadier-General Ross John Finnis HAYTER, CB, CMG, DSO, ADC GOC – 10 Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 28/02/1875 Toronto, Ontario Married: 1910 Edith Lawrie Children: 2 1 Daughter & 1 Son Died: 12/12/1929 South Farnborough, Hants.
Honours
01/01/1919+ CB Brevet LCol Cheshire Regiment 04/06/1917+ CMG LCol 10th Battalion CEF / Cheshire Regiment 22/07/1915 DSO Major 1 Canadian Infantry Brigade HQ 7x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 1900 QSA Queen’s South Africa Medal with 5 Clasps 1901 KSA King’s South Africa Medal with 2 Clasps
Military
29/08/1891 Cadet Royal Military College Kingston RMC Cadet #320 1895 2nd Lieutenant Cheshire Regiment British Army 06/04/1898 Lieutenant Promoted Lieutenant Cheshire Reg. LG 10/05/1898+ 1899 Lieutenant Cheshire Regiment British Army LG 03/01/1899+ 1901 Captain ADC to LGen in South Africa 15/11/1901 Captain Seconded for Service on the Staff LG 24/12/1901+ 24/03/1903 Captain Restored to the Establishment LG 10/07/1903+ 22/01/1904 Captain Cheshire Reg./Student Staff College LG 05/02/1904+ 27/11/1905 Captain Supernumerary Captain to be Captain LG 08/12/1905+ 10/02/1906 Captain DAA & QMG Malta Staff LG 23/02/1906+ 26/02/1910 Captain End period on Staff as DAA & QMG LG 04/03/1910+ 1911 Captain GSO2 with Canadian Forces 26/06/1914 Major Promoted Substantive Major LG 26/06/1914+ 08/1914 Major GSO Halifax Military District #9 06/1915 Major Attached 1 CIB LG 23/06/1915+ 13/09/1915 Major GSO2 1 Canadian Infantry Brigade LG 12/11/1915+ 29/09/1915 Major Brigade Major 1 Cdn Inf Brigade LG 02/03/1915+ 17/01/1916 Major GSO1 Canadian Local Forces LG 24/02/1916+ 06/1916 Brevet LCol Promoted Brevet LCol LG 02/06/1916+ 04/12/1917 Brigadier GOC – 10th Cdn Infantry Brigade LG 16/01/1918+ 27/10/1918 Brigadier End GOC 10 CIB LG 06/12/1918+ 03/06/1919 Colonel Promoted Colonel (Backdated *) LG 30/08/1920+ 25/08/1919 Temp. LCol GSO1 General Staff HQ Western Cmd LG 05/09/1919+ 14/07/1920 LCol Promoted Substantive LCol LG 13/07/1920+ 14/07/1920 Brevet Col Removed Regimental List as a GSO1 LG 21/07/1920+ 25/08/1920 Brevet Col GSO1 Canadian Forces / Temp. LCol LG 17/01/1920+ 14/07/1920 Brevet Col No Longer GSO1 General Staff LG 21/07/1920+ 03/06/1919 Colonel Backdated Promotion Colonel LG 30/08/1920+ 25/08/1923 Colonel Placed on Half Pay – not Employed LG 24/08/1923+ 01/12/1923 Colonel GOC - 16th Indian Infantry Brigade LG 14/03/1924+ 01/12/1923 Colonel Acting Colonel Commandant LG 14/03/1924+ 01/12/1927 Brigadier End Cmd 16th Indian Infantry Brigade LG 10/02/1928+ 01/12/1927 Colonel End Commander Northern Command LG 10/02/1928+ 01/12/1927 Colonel End Temporary Colonel Commandant LG 10/02/1928+ 01/01/1929 Brigadier Commander 5th Infantry Brigade LG 11/01/1929+ 01/01/1929 Brigadier Granted the Temp. Rank of Brigadier LG 11/01/1929+ 30/07/1929 Brigadier ADC to the King LG 23/08/1929+ 17/12/1929 Brigadier Position of ADC to the King ends LG 17/01/1930+ 12/12/1929 Brigadier Dies while in the Service LG 17/01/1930+
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48 Brigadier-General James KIRKCALDY, CMG, DSO and Bar GOC – 12 Canadian Infantry Brigade
Born: 1866 Abdie, Scotland Immigrated: 09/1891 Brandon Manitoba Married 1891 Rose H. Perry (1866 to 1961) of Hythe, England Children: 6 Children Died: 08/05/1957 Brandon, Manitoba
Honours
03/01/1917 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel 06/07/1918 Bar to DSO Lieutenant-Colonel 12/01/1916 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel 1st Canadian Brigade 07/06/1919+ Croix Croix de Guerre France LCol 78 CIB
Civilian
04/1892 Chief Chief of Police Brandon, Manitoba 1905 Chief Retired – Bought the Empire Hotel 10/1923 City Assessor Brandon, Manitoba 1934 Alderman City of Brandon for all but 1 year to 1952 Military
1883 Black Watch (British Army) Served in \ Scotland, Aldershot and Kildare, Ireland \ Dublin, Belfast & Londonderry 1889 Staff instructor Hythe School of Musketry 1891 End Time as Staff Instructor / to Brandon 1892 Chief Chief of Police Brandon (for 13 years) 1907 Lieutenant Manitoba Dragoons 1914 Major Manitoba Rangers 08/1916 Major 8th Winnipeg Rifles – to France – wounded at Ypres 04/1916 LCol CO 78th Battalion (Winnipeg Grenadiers) CEF 08/1916 LCol To France with 78th Battalion (Manitoba Reg.) 13/12/1918 Brigadier GOC – 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade LG 15/05/18 05/06/1919 Brigadier End GOC 12th CIB
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49 Brigadier-General John Grant RATTRAY, CMG, DSO Commanding Officer – Training Brigade
Born: 15/01/1867 Aberlour, Banffshire, Scotland Wife: 1895 Emily Wallace Child: 1 Daughter Immigrated to: 1910 Winnipeg, Manitoba Died: 23/06/1944 Ottawa, Ontario
Medals
06/07/1918 CMG Acting Colonel 12/02/1916 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel
Civilian
Normal School in Ottawa 1887 Taught school from 1887 to 1889 in Ontario 1889 Moved to Winnipeg Manitoba in 1889 and taught school until 1896 1896 Hardware Business 1896 to 1913 Published The Virden Advance newspaper 1912 Inspector Canada Life Assurance Company in Winnipeg A Liberal Who was hated by Sir Sam Hughes
Military
1906 Lieutenant 12th Manitoba Dragoons 1910 Lieutenant-Colonel Raised the 20th Border Horse 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 6th Battalion (Fort Garry Horse) 09/1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 10th Battalion (Calgary Highlanders) Fired by Sam Hughes after 25 days in September 1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Divisional Staff Officer in England 1915 Lieutenant-Colonel President Permanent Board of Enquiry Shorncliffe 06/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding - 10th Canadian Infantry Battalion 09/1916 Brigadier Commanding a Training Brigade 11/09/1917 Lieutenant-Colonel Attached to Headquarters Unit LG 04/06/1917 25/03/1919 Acting Colonel Commanding an Area LG 12/05/1919 1919 Commissioner Manitoba Provincial Police 1922 Commissioner Dismissed as Commissioner
10th Battalion Perpetuated By: The Calgary Highlanders The Winnipeg Light Infantry
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50 Major-General Herbert Cyril THACKER, CB, CMG, DSO CRA - 1st Canadian Divisional Artillery Chief of the General Staff 1927
Born: 16/09/1870 Poona, India Died: 02/06/1953 Victoria, B.C.
Honours
05/07/1919 CB Brigadier-General 01/07/1916 CMG Brigadier-General 06/07/1918 DSO Brigadier-General 7x MID Mentioned in Despatches 1905 Third Class Order of the Sacred Treasure Japan 1905 Medal Japanese War Medal Japan
Military
09/1887 Cadet Royal Military College Kingston Cadet #256 06/1891 2nd Lieutenant Royal Canadian Artillery 1893 Lieutenant Royal Canadian Artillery 1899 Lieutenant Adjutant – RCA – in South African 1900 Captain Canadian Field Artillery South Africa 14/01/1902 Major Promoted T/Major 2nd CMR S.A. LG 22/08/02+ 1904 Captain Military Attaché Japanese Army 1905 Captain Military Attaché Russo-Japanese War 1907 Lieutenant-Colonel Director of Artillery Ottawa 1907 Lieutenant-Colonel CO Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery 1911 Lieutenant-Colonel Inspector of Coast Defense Artillery 1914 Brigadier-General CRA - 1st Canadian Division to Europe 25/06/1915 Brigadier-General CRA - 2nd Cdn Division Artillery LG 21/09/15+ 22/09/1915 Brigadier-General CRA - 1st Cdn Division Artillery LG 04/08/16+ 06/12/1916 Brigadier-General Adjutant-General Cdn R.A. LG 09/12/16+ 22/05/1919 Brigadier-General End command 1st Cdn Div Artillery / home 06/1919 Brigadier-General DOC Military District #6 Halifax 1927 Major-General Chief of the General Staff 1929 Major-General Retires
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51 Major-General Henri Alexandre PANET, CB, CMG, DSO CRA – 2nd Canadian Divisional Artillery
Born: 24/07/1869 Quebec City Died: 14/08/1951 Kingston, Ontario
Honours
08/02/1919 CB Brigadier-General 01/07/1916 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel 19/04/1901+ DSO Captain 16/05/1901+ MID Mentioned-in-Despatches S.A. 7x WWI MID
Civilian
06/1891 Assistant Resident Engineer - CPR
Military
09/1887 Cadet Royal Military College RMC #255 06/1891 2nd Lieutenant Royal Canadian Artillery 05/1894 Lieutenant Royal Canadian Artillery 10/1899 Captain 2nd (Special Service) Battalion RCR * 01/05/1901 Major Staff Adjutant Royal Military College Kingston 1909 Major Commanding “B” Battery Royal Cdn Field Artillery 01/05/1911 Lieutenant-Colonel Command of the Royal Cdn Horse Artillery Brigade 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Valcartier Camp to train CEF 10/1914 Lieutenant-Colonel RCHA to England 07/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel RCHA to Flanders 06/1916 Colonel Promoted Colonel; First MID (one of 7) 18/12/1916 Brigadier-General CRA - 2nd Canadian Division 25/06/1919 Brigadier-General Return to Canada 10/1919 Brigadier-General District Officer Commanding #1 District 05/1921 Major-General Promoted to Major-General 06/1922 Major-General District Officer Commanding #2 District 07/1923 Major-General Adjutant-General 12/1930 Major-General Retired 01/11/1934 Honorary Colonel Colonel Commandant Royal Regiment of Artillery 17/01/1948 Honorary Colonel End Colonel Commandant RCA
* With 1st Cdn Contingent to South Africa With “C” Battery built Fort Canada Rustenberg
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Classmates RMC
246 Henry Edward BURSTALL 256 Herbert Cyril THACKER 258 Robert Kellock SCOTT
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52 Major-General Henri Alexandre PANET, CB, CMG, DSO CRA – 2nd Canadian Divisional Artillery
Medals
CB CMG DSO Queen’s South Africa with four bars 1914/1915 Star British War Medal Victory Medal with MID King Edward VI Coronation Medal King George V Coronation Medal King George VI Coronation Medal
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53 Brigadier-General James Henry MITCHELL, DSO CRA – 3rd Divisional Artillery
Born: 24/01/1865 London, England Married: 04/11/1896 Eva Clarabel Gooderham, Toronto (30/11/1973 Died: 29/04/1923 Toronto, Ontario \ to (16/02/1951)
Honours
28/07/1917 DSO Brigadier-General 23/10/1915 Officer Legion of Honour France LCol 4 MID Mentioned-in-Dispatches 1885 Medal Northwest Canada
Civilian
Vice-President Colonial Investment Trust Company President Imperial Trust Company
Military
1885 Officer Served in North West Rebellion (at Batouche) 10th Regiment Governor General’s Body Guard 48th Regiment Highlanders 1911 Lieutenant-Colonel 2nd Brigade – Canadian Field Artillery 08/1914 Lieutenant-Colonel 3rd Brigade - Canadian Field Artillery 20/06/1916 Brigadier-General GOC – 3rd Divisional Artillery LG 27/07/1916+ 18/11/1917 Brigadier-General End GOC 3rd Divisional Artillery 29/12/1917 Brigadier-General Replaced by BGen J.S. Stewart LG 05/02/1918+ 15/07/1916 Brigadier-General GOC – 21st Canadian Infantry Brigade
27/07/1916+ Commanded 3rd Divisional Artillery at Vimy Ridge 06/02/1918+ LCol H.G. Carscallen replaced 20/11/1917 to 28/12/1917
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54 Brigadier-General John Smith STEWART, CMG, DSO, ED, DDS, LLD CRA – 3rd Divisional Artillery
Born: 18/05/1878 Brampton, Ontario Married: 15/09/1907 Hamilton Jenny McLure Married: 1946 Ellie Peterson Died: 14/08/1970 Lethbridge, Alberta
Honours
08/02/1919 CMG Brigadier-General 3rd Divisional Artillery 03/01/1917 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Infantry 1918 Croix Croix de Guerre France 1900 Queen’s Medal Four Clasps 2x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches WWI
Civilian
1896 Dentist Trinity College, Toronto 1896 Dentist Edmonton 1902 Dentist Lethbridge with Brother-in-Law Dr. McClure 1911 MLA Member Legislative Assembly of Alberta 1925 MLA End MLA (Elected 4x: 1911, 1913, 1917, & 1921) 1930 MP Member of Parliament for Lethbridge 1935 MP End MP
Military
1891 Private Lord Strathcona’s Horse 03/1900 Private Lord Strathcona’s Horse – South Africa 2nd Cont. 01/1908 Major Started 25th Artillery Battery in Lethbridge 08/1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Raised the 20th Artillery Battery CFA for CEF 11/1914 Lieutenant-Colonel CO - 20th Artillery Battery CFA overseas 10/03/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel OIC - 7th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery 01/01/1916 Lieutenant-Colonel To France with 7th Brigade – twice wounded 03/1917 Lieutenant-Colonel OIC - 4th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery 29/12/1917 Brigadier-General CRA – 3rd Divisional Artillery 05/01/1919 Brigadier-General End CRA 3rd Divisional Artillery
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55 Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Gurney CARSCALLEN, DSO CRA – 3rd Divisional Artillery
Born: 14/08/1845 Hamilton, Ontario Married: Marian Died:
Honours
03/02/1917 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Field Artillery 22/06/1915+ MID Mentioned-in-Dispatches Major 11th Battery 3 CAB
Civilian
Military
1914 Major 8th Battery – 4th “Hamilton” Battery 1915 Major 11th Battery, 3rd Canadian Artillery Brigade 20/11/1917 Lieutenant-Colonel CRA – 3rd Divisional Artillery 28/12/1917 Lieutenant-Colonel End CRA 3rd Divisional Artillery
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56 Brigadier-General William Birchall Macaulay KING, CMG, DSO, VD CRA – 4th Divisional Artillery
Born: 13/01/1878 Port Colborne, Ontario Married: 1909 Nora Beatrice Rogers Children: 2 1 Son; 1 Daughter Married: 31/01/1920 Selina Adine Shuttleworth-King Name Change: 04/12/1935 Selina Adine Kay-Shuttleworth LG 06/12/1935+ Died: 22/06/1950 Toronto, Ontario
Honours
06/07/1918 CMG Brigadier – GOC 5th Divisional Artillery 17/07/1915 DSO Major – 10th Battalion Cdn Field Artillery 6x MID Mentioned in Despatches 03/11/1917 Officer Order of the Crown Belgium 03/11/1917 Croix Croix de Guerre Belgium
1902 Medal Queen’s Medal S.A. with 4 Clasps 1902 Medal King’s Medal S.A. with 2 Clasps Medal Colonel Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal
Military
1892 2nd Lieutenant ‘C’ Battery Royal Canadian Artillery 21/02/1899 Lieutenant Cdn Field Artillery – Leave Halifax for S.A. 21/03/1899 Lieutenant Cdn Field Artillery – Arrive Cape Town, S.A. 1900 South African War 1901 South African Constabulary 1902 Resident Justice of the Peace, South Africa 1906 Return to Canada
24/09/1914 Major 3rd Infantry Battalion, Toronto Regiment 21/09/1915 T/Col Canadian Artillery LG 07/10/15+ 20/08/1917 Temp LCol CO – Canadian School of Gunnery LG 22/09/17+ 27/11/1917 Brigadier CRA – 4th Cdn Divisional Artillery LG 25/01/18+ 02/06/1919 Brigadier End CRA 4th Cdn Divisional Artillery 1923 Brigadier District Officer Commanding MD #1 1926 Brigadier District Officer Commanding MD #4 1931 Brigadier Retired Hon Colonel 8th Field Regiment
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57 Brigadier-General William Birchall Macaulay KING, CMG, DSO, VD CRA – 4th Divisional Artillery
His Wife
Selina Adine Bridgeman was born on 24 June 1886. She married, firstly, Captain Hon. Lawrence Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, on 1 February 1913.
She married, secondly, MGen William Birchall Macaulay King,on 31 January 1920.
She was the daughter of Brig.-Gen. Hon. Francis Charles Bridgeman and Gertude Cecilia Hanbury. From 1 February 1913, her married name became Kay-Shuttleworth. From 31 January 1920, her married name became King.
Children of Selina Adine Bridgeman and Captain Hon. Lawrence Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth:
1. F/O Richard Ughtred Paul Kay-Shuttleworth, 2nd Baron Shuttleworth b. 30/10/1913, d. 8/08/1940 2. Hon. Rosemary Florence Angela Kay-Shuttleworth b. 15 Sep 1915 3. Ronald Orlando Lawrence Kay-Shuttleworth, 3rd Baron Shuttleworth born 7 Oct 1917, died 17 Nov 1942
In the London Gazette of 06 December 1935, she changed her name from Selina Adine Shuttleworth-King to the Honourable Selina Adine Kay-Shuttleworth. Perhaps this was to take advantage of her former husband’s father’s title.
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58 Brigadier-General Charles Henry MacLAREN, CMG, DSO, KStJ CRA – 4th Canadian Divisional Artillery
Born: 22/11/1878 Wakefield, Quebec Married 11/12/1916 Dorothy White Ottawa, Ontario Children: 2 3 Sons Died: 15/08/1962 Ottawa, Ontario
Honours
26/01/1918 CMG Brigadier-General 5th Divisional Artillery 12/01/1916 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel 1st Canadian Brigade 02/01/1953+ KStJ Knight of the Order of St. John BGen WWI MID Mentioned-in-Despatches
Civilian
1905 LLD Queen’s University and Osgoode Hall 1905 Lawyer Bar of Ontario --- 1920s President MacLaren Power & Paper 1920s Director Bank of Nova Scotia
Military
1900 Joined Canadian Militia Lieutenant-Colonel CO - 2nd (Ottawa) Field Battery 02/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel To France 23/06/1915 Major 10th Battery, 3rd Cdn Artillery LG 23/06/15+ 21/09/1915 Temporary LCol To be Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel LG 07/10/15+ 24/06/1917 Brigadier-General CRA – 4th Canadian Divisional Artillery 20/08/1917 Acting Colonel CO Cdn School of Gunnery GSO1 Pay LG 22/09/17+ 07/11/1917 Brigadier-General End position of CRA 4th Cdn Div Artillery 27/11/1917 Brigadier-General End Temporary BGen rank LG 28/01/18+ 01/01/1918 Brigadier-General GSO1 Classification ends LG 25/01/18+ 1922 Brigadier-General Retired – Honorary Rank of Brigadier-General
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59 Brigadier-General George Harrah RALSTON, DSO CRA - 5th Divisional Artillery
Born: 22/05/1866 Rio de Janeiro Died:
Honours
28/07/1917 DSO LCol – Canadian Field Artillery 11/03/1919+ Croix LCol - Croix de Guerre (France)
Civilian
Owner Hill and Dale Bed & Breakfast in Port Hope
Military
1914 Major 1st Canadian Contingent Overseas 3rd Brigade CFA 19/01/1919 Brigadier GOC – 3rd Division Artillery 3rd Division LG 12/05/19 16/03/1919 Brigadier GOC – 5th Division Artillery Cdn Corps 10/06/1919 Brigadier End GOC 5th Divisional Artillery
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60 Colonel The Honourable James Layton RALSTON, PC, CMG, DSO and Bar, KC, LLD Minister of National Defence WWII
Born: 27/09/1881 Amherst, Nova Scotia Married: 1907 Nettie Winnifred McLeod Child: 1 Son Died: 21/05/1948 Montreal, Quebec Honours
05/07/1919 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel Nova Scotia Regiment 20/09/1919 DSO and Bar Lieutenant-Colonel 85 CIB N.S. Regiment 03/11/1917 DSO Major Canadian Infantry 1914 KC King’s Council
Civilian
1903 Law School Lawyer in Amherst 1911-1920 MLA Nova Scotia for Cumberland 1926-1935 MP Shelburn-Yarmouth Nova Scotia 12/1935 Cdn Delegate Third London Naval Conference 1940-1945 MP Prince Edward Island (Liberal) 1926-1930 Minister National Defence 1930 Minister Pensions and National Health 05/08/1939 Minister Finance and Receiver General 10/06/1940 Minister National Defence 01/11/1944 ex Minister Pushed Out of Cabinet for McNaughton
Military
1914 Lieutenant 85th Cdn Infantry Battalion (N.S. Highlanders) 10/1916 Major 85th Cdn Infantry Battalion Nova Scotia Highlanders 10/02/1917 Major To France / Nova Scotia Regiment 13/09/1917 Major Relinquishes acting rank of LCol LG 13/02/1918+ 04/1918 Major Commanding Officer 85th CIB, Nova Scotia Highlander 31/08/1918 LCol Promoted 06/1919 LCol Demobilized 28/04/1924 Colonel Promoted Colonel 1
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1 Major James Layton Ralson, DSO in WWI The Honourable James Layton Ralston, MND at Juno Beach in WWII
61 Brigadier-General William Okell Holden DODDS, CMG, DSO, VD CRA – 5th Canadian Division
Born: 03 July 1867 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Married: 1910 Jean Hamilton Holt Died: 25 August 1934 Montreal, Quebec
Honours
08/02/1919 DSO Brigadier-General 01/07/1916 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel 04/1916 MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 11/1917 MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 03/1918 MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 11/1918 MID Mentioned-in-Despatches VD 1918 Colonial Auxiliary Officer’s \ Long Service Decoration
Civilian
Banking Manager of the Montreal Agency of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York Involved in and a keen supporter of sports and athletics in Montreal
Military
1884 Private Canadian Garrison Artillery 1886 2nd Lieutenant Royal Montreal Regiment 1897 Captain 5th Royal Highlanders (Royal Scots of Canada) 1905 Captain Canadian Field Artillery 01/1912 Captain 1st Regiment, Grenadier Guards of Canada 1914 Major 3rd Montreal Battery 1914 Major Officer Commanding 1st Battery, CFA, Valcartier 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Adjutant 1st Brigade, CEF 10/1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Sailed with the 1st Contingent of the CEF 1915 Lieutenant-Colonel CO - 1st Brigade, CFA 09/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel CO - 5th Brigade, CFA (2nd Div) 09/1916 Lieutenant-Colonel GOC - 8th Cdn Training Brigade in England 02/10/1916 Brigadier-General CRA - 4th Canadian Division LG 24/07/14+ 23/01/1917 Brigadier-General CRA - 5th Canadian Division 26/05/1917 Brigadier-General End CRA 5th Canadian Division 02/07/1917 Brigadier-General CRA – 5th Canadian Division 08/1917 Brigadier-General CRA - 5th Canadian Division – to France 30/12/1918 Brigadier-General End CRA 5th Canadian Division 1919 Brigadier-General Served in Germany with Occupation Forces 1919 Brigadier-General Military Governor of Bonn 06/1919 Returned to Canada Resumed Civilian career 1920 Honorary Colonel 14th Royal Montreal Regiment 20/03/1928 Hon Col Commandant Canadian Artillery 25/08/1934 Colonel Commandant End Colonel Commandant RCA
One of the 1st officers 1st Regiment, Grenadier Guards of Canada
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62 Brigadier-General Raymond BRUTINEL, CB, CMG, DSO General Officer Commanding – Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Born: 06/03/1872 Alet-les-Bains, Aude, France Emigrated 1905 To Edmonton Died: 21/09/1964 Couloumé-Mondebat, Gers, France
Honours
05/07/1919 CB Brigadier-General Motor Machine Gun Bttn 06/07/1918 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel Motor Machine Gun Corps 01/07/1916 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel Motor Machine Gun Corps 15/11/1918 Officer Legion of Honour (France) BGen 11/03/1919+ Croix Croix de Guerre (France) BGen 14/07/1917 Cavalier Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus (Italy) 07/01/1919 MID 7x in total
Civilian
1904 Geologist Surveyed the route for the Grand Trunk Railway Journalist Editor of Le Courrier de l’Ouest (Edmonton) 1920 Creusot Sales Representative in the Balkans
Military
Pre 1905 Captain French Reserve Army 1914 Major Formed the Motor Machine Gun Brigade 15/06/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade 28/10/1916 Brigadier-General GOC - Cdn Corps Machine Gun Officer 1917 Brigadier-General GOC - All Mobile Units Cdn Corp * 08/1918 Brigadier-General GOC – The Canadian Independent Force 09/1918 Brigadier-General GOC – Brutinel’s Brigade 18/04/1919 Brigadier-General End Command of Cdn Corps Machine Gun 1919 Brigadier-General Military Historian War Narrative Section 1920 Brigadier-General Left the Army and returned to Europe
06/1940 Assisted in the evacuated of Canadian Embassy Staff from Paris
* – Brutinel’s Brigade
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63 Brigadier-General Robert Walter PATERSON, CMG, DSO GOC – Canadian Cavalry Brigade
Born: 22/10/1876 Guelph, Ontario Married: Lily Drewry Children 3 1 Daughter and 2 Sons Died: 26/04/1936 ? Winnipeg, Manitoba
Honours
05/07/1919 CMG Brigadier-General 01/11/1917 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel \ Fort Garry Horse
Civilian
1893 Clerk Bank of Ottawa 1902 Secretary-Treasurer Winnipeg Paint and Glass Company 1903 Managing Director Winnipeg Paint and Glass Company 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Fort Garry Horse 1919 President Manitoba Linseed Oil Mills Vice-President Northern Canadian Mortgage Company
Military
1899 Lieutenant 43rd Regiment, Duke of Cornwall's Own, Ottawa 1902 Captain 90th Regiment, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1907 Major 18th Mounted Rifles, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14/04/1912 Lieutenant-Colonel Formed 34th Regiment of Calvary 1913 Lieutenant-Colonel Fort Garry Horse, Winnipeg 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer – Fort Garry Horse CEF 23/06/1917 Lieutenant-Colonel Temporary GOC – Canadian Cavalry Brigade 22/08/1917 Lieutenant-Colonel End Temporary GOC – Cdn Cavalry Brigade 21/05/1918 Brigadier-General GOC – Canadian Cavalry Brigade 20/05/1919 Brigadier-General End Command - return to Civilian Life
* = from ‘A’ Squadron 18th Mounted Rifles
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64 Major-General William Bethune LINDSAY, CB, CMG, DSO Chief Engineer Canadian Corps
Born: 03/11/1880 Strathroy, Ontario Died: 27/06/1933 Toronto Hunt Club, Ontario
Honours
05/07/1919 CB Major-General 03/06/1916+ CMG Brigadier-General 26/01/1918 DSO Brigadier-General 4x MID Mentioned-in-Dispatches 4x
Civilian
1900 Assistant Engineer Department of Marine & Fisheries Ottawa 1904 Joins Permanent Force Royal Canadian Engineers 04/04/1921 Tar Sands Alberta Secured the right to a 1920 acre lease of the Tar Sands in the Province of Alberta
Military
09/1897 Cadet Royal Military College Kingston RMC #444 1900 Cadet Graduates from RMC 1904 2nd Lieutenant Royal Canadian Engineers 08/1914 Major Organized 1st Canadian Division Engineers 1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Commander Royal Engineers 1st Cdn Division 07/03/1916 Brigadier-General Chief Engineer Canadian Army Corps 11/07/1919 Major-General GOC - Canadian Engineers 1920 Major-General Retired for health reasons
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65 Brigadier-General Charles Johnston ARMSTRONG, CB, CMG, VD Chief Engineer - Canadian Corps
Born: 27/08/1872 Montreal, Quebec Married: 1913 Flora Macdonald Kittson (in Ottawa) Died: 23/06/1934 London, Ontario
Honours
08/02/1919 CB Temporary Brigadier-General Canadian Engineers 12/02/1916 CMG Temporary Brigadier-General Canadian Engineers 4x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 21/10/1919+ Grand Officer Military Order of Avis Portugal 12/06/1920 Commander Order of the Crown Belgium VD Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers Decoration
1900 QSA Medal Queen’s South Africa with 3 Clasps 1902 KSA Medal King’s South Africa with 2 Clasps
Civilian
Civil Engineer 1893 Civil Engineer Railway Surveys and Construction Canada 1899 Civil Engineer End Employment – to South Africa 1902 Divisional Engineer Central South Africa Railway 1911 Engineer With Sir John Jackson Ltd Engineers \ & Contractors Docks, Harbours and \ Water Power in Canada 1914 Engineer Return to Canadian Engineers
Military
31/08/1889 Cadet Royal Military College Kingston Cadet #293 1893 Lieutenant Canadian Engineers 1988 Lieutenant First Canadian Contingent to South Africa Staff of the Director of Railways 1914 Captain 5th Regiment (Royal Highlanders of Canada) 1914 Major 2nd (Special Service Battalion) RCR 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Staff Imperial Military Railways 1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Engineers 12/09/1915 Temporary Brigadier Canadian Engineers LG 12/11/1915+ 13/09/1915 Brigadier-General Chief Engineer – Canadian Corps 07/03/1916 Brigadier-General End Chief Engineer LG 12/05/1916+ 16/02/1918 Brigadier-General Chief Engineer – 7th Army LG 20/09/1918+ 07/03/1919 Brigadier-General End Chief Engineer – 7th Army LG 16/04/1919+
RMC Classmate
John Edward Leckie
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66 Major-General Alexander Lorne McDOUGALL, CB GOC Canadian Forestry Corps
Born: 15/01/1878 Renfrew, Ontario Children: 2 2 Sons Died: 01/1927
Honours
26/01/1918 CB Brigadier-General 18/05/1918 Officer Legion of Honour France 02/1918 MID Mentioned-in-Despatches
Civilian
1899 University College, University of Toronto 1902 Assistant Astronomical Office 1902 Assistant Engineer, Quebec Bridge 1902 Engineer, Mexican Light & Power Company, Mexico 1903 Consulting Engineer, Ottawa, Public Works Department 1906 Engineering Consulting Work with his partner / built 30% of National Transcontinental Railway
Military
Pre WWI Lieutenant Canadian Engineers 1914 Lieutenant Engineer Officer 1915 Lieutenant Infantry Officer 03/1916 Lieutenant-Colonel OC 224th Canadian Forestry Battalion 04/1916 Lieutenant-Colonel Cdn Forestry Battalion arrives overseas 06/1916 Lieutenant-Colonel Director Timber Operations 09/1916 Colonel Director Timber Operations 12/1916 Colonel Commanding 1st Cdn Forestry Battalion 01/04/17 Brigadier-General Director of Timber Operations Britain & France 01/04/17 Brigadier-General Canadian Forestry Corps 20/12/1918 Major-General GOC Canadian Forestry Corps 06/08/19 Major-General Retired to the British Isles LG 18/08/19+
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67 Major-General Henry SMITH First Judge-Advocate General Canadian Militia
Born: 01/08/1837 Montreal, Quebec Married: 1866 Charlotte Honey of Cobourg, Ontario Children: 3 Daughters Died: 14/03/1923 Ottawa, Ontario
Medals
1866 General Service Medal Fenian Raid 1866 Clasp 1885 Northwest Medal Saskatchewan Bar (MID)
Civilian
1865 Attorney Ontario 1898 Editor Canadian Military Gazette 1907 Lecturer Military Law, History, Admin McGill University
Military
1856 Private 1st Volunteer Militia Rifle of Cobourg 02/1862 Ensign 1st Volunteer Militia Rifle of Cobourg 01/1863 Lieutenant 1st Volunteer Militia Rifle of Cobourg 1864 Cadet Royal Military School Kingston (1st Class) 1866 Captain (*) No. 1 Company 40th Northumberland Battalion 1870 Captain OC No. 2 Company 40th Northumberland Bttn 01/1872 Brevet Major Brigade-Major – 6th Division 1876 Brevet Major End Brigade-Major – 6th Division to 40th 1882 Major 40th Northumberland Battalion 09/1883 Major Adjutant 40th Battalion (PF) 1883 Major OC - ‘C’ Company 40th Battalion 1885 Major 40th Battalion to the Northwest Force 1885 Major Assistant Adjutant General NW Field Force 1885 Lieutenant-Colonel Command 40th Northumberland Battalion 07/1887 Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant Royal School of Infantry London 1887 Lieutenant-Colonel DOC - Military District #1 04/1888 Lieutenant-Colonel DOC and Deputy Adjutant General MD #1 1892 Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Regiment of Infantry 1893 Lieutenant-Colonel Renamed Royal Regiment of Canadian Infantry 1896 Lieutenant-Colonel DOC - Military District #1 1898 Lieutenant-Colonel Begins 5 year Hiatus in Military Career 10/1903 Lieutenant-Colonel Military Secretary to Staff Militia HQ AG Office 05/1905 Lieutenant-Colonel Chairman Pension Claims Board 1908 Colonel Adjutant-General’s Office 10/1911 Colonel Judge Advocate General (JAG) age 74 12/1914 Brigadier-General Judge Advocate General (JAG) age 77 06/1916 Major-General Judge Advocate General (JAG) age 79 01/1918 Major-General Retires as JAG age 80 08/1919 Major-General Retires – last year an Advisor at HQ
(*) Served during the Fenian Raids; his father, Lieutenant-Colonel William Smith, Commanded the 40th Northumberland Battalion
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68 Colonel Oliver Mowat BIGGAR, CMG, KC Judge-Advocate General
Born: 11/10/1876 Toronto, Ontario Married: 1908 Toronto, Ontario Muriel Elizabeth Whitney Children: 1 1 Daughter Died: 03/09/1948 Ottawa, Ontario
Honours
05/06/1943 CMG Chairman Cdn Section Joint Board Defense Commander Legion of Merit USA 1913 KC King’s Council (Alberta) 1920 KC King’s Council (Canada)
Civilian
1901 Lawyer Graduate Osgoode Hall & University of Toronto 1903 Lawyer Edmonton, Alberta (called to Alberta Bar) 1911 Board of Governors University of Alberta 1914 End Board of Governors End Term on Board of Governors U. of Alberta 1919 Chief Cdn Legal Advisor Peace Conference in Paris & Versailles 1919 British Secretary War Guilt Commission 1920 Vice Chairman Air Board - Organized Canada’s Air Department 1920 Chief Electoral Officer House of Commons; 1st Chief Electoral Officer 1927 Chief Electoral Officer End term 1940 Co-Chair Canada-US Defence Board 1942 Head Canadian Censorship Board 1942 Member Wartime Information Board 1945 Retired Turned over his duties to General McNaughton
Military
1903 Lieutenant Edmonton Fusiliers 1915 Major Member Military Service Council 1917 Major AJAG for MD #13 Alberta 01/1918 Lieutenant-Colonel Judge Advocate General (JAG) 1920 Lieutenant-Colonel Retire
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After practising law in Edmonton for twelve years, he joined the Canadian Army in 1915 and became the Judge Advocate General for Canada in 1918. He was a member of the Canadian delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference in 1918-19. In derogation to standard practice, Colonel Biggar, then Parliamentary Counsel of the House of Commons, was designated in the Elections Act as the first holder of the office, a feature that suggests that his appointment may have been part and parcel of an all-party package. His salary was made equal to that of a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, a position that at that time commanded a salary of $12,000. Ironically, Biggar quit in 1927 after having supervised three general elections, because he expected to make even more money by moving to the lucrative practice of patent law. To this day, he remains the only Chief Electoral Officer having a legal background.
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69 Major-General William Egerton HODGINS, CMG Adjutant-General
Born: 03/10/1851 Toronto, Ontario Married: 23/06/1880 Caroline Seymour Clark Cobourg, Ont. (D. 02/81) Married: 30/10/1883 Eleanor Jaffray Ritchie Ottawa, Ontario Children: 3 2 Sons and 1 Daughter Died: 27/02/1930 Ottawa, Ontario
Honours
06/07/1918 CMG Brigadier-General Cdn Army Service Corps 1930 LLD University of Toronto
Civilian
1874 BA University of Toronto 1876 MA University of Toronto 1877 Lawyer Toronto and Bowmanville 11/1883 Barrister Federal Department of Justice 1903 Resigns Resigns from Federal Department of Justice
Military
1866 Cadet Toronto Military School 1874 Lieutenant 2nd Battalion, Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1877 Captain 2nd Battalion, Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1883 Captain Governor General’s Foot Guards 1890 Major Governor General’s Foot Guards 1894 Lieutenant-Colonel Governor General’s Foot Guards 1903 Lieutenant-Colonel Permanent Force 1909 Colonel Promoted Colonel 1914 Brigadier-General Promoted Brigadier-General 01/1915 Brigadier-General Adjutant-General 09/1915 Major-General Promoted MGen / Still Adjutant-General 09/1917 Major-General Demobilization Committee in England 03/1918 Major-General Retired / Helped establish Veterans Affairs
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70 Major-General Percival Edward THACKER, CB, CMG Adjutant General
Born: 16/09/1873 Poona, India Married: First Gladys Howland (died 1919) Toronto Married: Second Honourable Mable Louise Guy A Maid of Honour to Queen Mary 1911 to 1920 Died: 02/07/1945 Victoria, B.C.
Honours
28/07/1917 CB Brigadier-General 01/07/1916 CMG Colonel 1900 Medal Queen’s Medal with 3 bars 1919 Star 1914/1915 Star 1919 Medal British War Medal 1919 Medal Victory Medal with MID 30/04/1916+ MID Mentioned-In-Dispatches 13/11/1916+ MID Mentioned-In-Dispatches
Military
08/1890 Cadet Royal Military College Kingston RMC #319 1898 Lieutenant Yukon Field Force 1901 Lieutenant 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles South Africa 14/02/1902 Captain 2nd CMR Promoted Captain LG 22/08/02+ 14/09/1902 Captain 5th Contingent SS Manhattan leave Halifax 13/02/1902 Captain Arrive Cape Town 5th Contingent 27/06/1902 Captain Returned to Canada on the SS Winifredian 10/1904 Royal Canadian Mounted Rifles 1911 Lieutenant-Colonel Director of Military Training 1912 Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Strathcona’s Horse 01/04/1912 Lieutenant-Colonel Attached British General Staff LG 03/05/12+ 05/12/1916 Brigadier-General Adjutant-General 15/08/1919 Major-General Adjutant General ends
RMC Classmate: General Sir William Charles Giffard HENEKER, KCB, KCMG, DSO
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71 Major-General James Charles MACDOUGALL, CMG Assistant Adjutant-General
Born: 16/07/1863 Toronto, Ontario Married: 16/07/1863 Josephine Hawke Children: 1 1 Son Died: 30/01/1927 Hamilton, Bermuda
Honours
22/01/1916 CMG Brigadier-General Command Training Division WWI MID Mentioned in Despatches 1900 QSA Medal Queen’s South Africa with one Clasp
Military
05/02/1879 Cadet Royal Military College RMC #95 1900 Major Royal Canadian Regiment 03/04/1900 Major Assist. to Railway Transport Officer LG 10/07/1900 26/05/1900 Major Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General LG 23/10/1900 1910 Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Canadian Regiment 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Acting Adjutant-General 08/1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Overseas with 1st Cdn Contingent Mil Sec’y GOC 01/07/1916 Brigadier-General Commanding - Canadian Training Division 1916 Brigadier-General GOC – Canadian Troops in the United Kingdom 1917 Major-General Special Duties 1919 Major-General Retired
RMC Classmate
#88 Major-General Sir Philip Geoffrey TWINING, KCMG, CB, MVO
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72 Major-General Guy Carleton JONES, CMG, KStJ MD CM Director General of Medical Services
Born: 25/12/1865 Halifax, Nova Scotia Father: Honourable A.G. Jones, LG of Nova Scotia Married: First Susan Morrow Jones (died 1926 or Halifax) Scotia Married: Second 1928 Contessa Ginevra Mannini (died 1943) Died: 23/10/1950 Edinburgh, Scotland
Honours
22/01/1916 CMG Major-General Director General of Medical Services 04/08/1911 KStJ Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John Colonel 15/09/1924a Officer Legion of Honour France 1900 Medal Queen’s Medal for South Africa with 2 Clasps
Civilian
1887 MRCS England King’s College London 1890 MD CM Halifax Medical College
Military
1896 Surgeon Lieutenant 1st Regiment, Canadian Artillery 1898 Surgeon Captain Halifax Bearer Company 1899 Major 2 i/c 10th Canadian Field Hospital South Africa 28/01/1902 Major Leave Halifax for South Africa (2nd Tour) 21/02/1902 Major Arrive Cape Town, S.A. – Field Hospital 1905 Lieutenant-Colonel P.A.M.C. 12/1906 Colonel Director General of CAMC / Surgeon-General 1913 Colonel Director General of Medical Services, CAMC 09/1914 Colonel Surgeon General – DG Medical Services Overseas 12/1914 Colonel Director Medical Services, CEF 09/1915 Major-General Surgeon General 09/02/1917 Major-General Medical commissioner CEF LG 13/03/1917+
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The medical units accompanying the First Canadian Contingent were the following:
No. 1 Canadian Field Ambulance Kingston, Ontario O.C. Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Edward Ross No. 2 Canadian Field Ambulance Toronto, Ontario O.C. Lieutenant-Colonel D. W. McPherson No. 3 Canadian Field Ambulance Winnipeg, Manitoba) O.C. Lieutenant-Colonel W. L. Watt No. 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station New Germany, Nova Scotia O.C. Lieutenant-Colonel F. S. C. Ford No. 1 Canadian General Hospital St. John, New Brunswick O.C. Lieutenant-Colonel Murray MacLaren No. 2 Canadian General Hospital P.A.M.C. O.C. Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Bridges No. 1 Canadian Stationary Hospital P.A.M.C. O.C. Lieutenant-Colonel L. Drum No. 2 Canadian Stationary Hospital Ottawa, Ontario O.C. Lieutenant-Colonel A. T. Shillington
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73 Major-General Gilbert Lafayette FOSTER, CB, CStJ, MD, FRS, LLD Director-General of Medical Services – Canadian Forces Surgeon-General
Born: 29/05/1874 Kingston, Nova Scotia Married: 1901 Jane Thompson Wichwire Sons: 2 One was Major-General Harry Wickwire Foster Died: 17/05/1940 Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Honours
17/07/1915 CB Temporary Colonel Canadian Army Medical Corps 18/04/1918+ Officer Legion of Honour France CStJ Commander Order of St. John WW1 MID
Civilian
05/1896 MD University of New York 1896 Physician Canning and Halifax, Nova Scotia
Military
1896 Surgeon Lieutenant 68th King’s County Regiment * 1898 Surgeon Lieutenant Yukon Field Force in South Africa 1900 Surgeon Lieutenant Return to Canada 1901 Captain 68th King’s County Regiment 1902 Major 68th King’s County Regiment 1905 Major Joined Regular Force Cdn Army Medical Service 1907 Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Army Medical Service 1911 Lieutenant-Colonel Area Medical Officer 6th Divisional Area N.S. 1913 Lieutenant-Colonel Assist Dir Medical Svc 2nd District (Toronto) 09/1914 Lieutenant-Colonel DADMS CAMC 1st Canadian Division 1915 Colonel CEF 09/02/17 Brigadier-General Director of Medical Services Cdn HQ T/SurgGen 16/07/18 Major-General Director-General Medical Services Overseas
* Senior Surgeon of the 68th King’s County Regiment at that time was was Sir Frederick Borden
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74 Major-General John Tayor FOTHERINGHAM, CMG, KStJ, VD, MD Director-General - Canadian Army Medical Corps
Born: 05/12/1860 Kirkton, Perth County, Ontario Married: 30/12/1891 Whitby, Ontario Jennie Caroline McGillivary Children: 3 2 Daughters and 1 Son Died: 19/05/1940 Toronto, Ontario
Honours
01/07/1916 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel Deputy Director CAMC 23/06/1933 KStJ Major-General 03/01/1928 CStJ Major-General MID VD
Civilian
Professor Trinity Medical School Staff Toronto General and Hospital for Sick Children 1924 Chair History of Medicine University of Toronto
Military
1900 Surgeon Canadian Army Medical Corps 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Assistant Director of Medical Services MD #2 1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Overseas with 2nd Canadian Division 07/12/1915 T/Colonel Promoted to Colonel, Cdn Army Medical Services 17/03/1917 Colonel Temporary Surgeon General, CAMC 1917 Colonel Director-General of Medical Services 1919 Major-General Director-General of Medical Services
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75 Brigadier-General Henry Stanley BIRKETT, CB, VD, MD CM Assistant Director General - Canadian Army Medical Corps
Born: 17/07/1864 Hamilton, Ontario Died: 19/07/1941 Montreal, Quebec
Honours
03/02/1917 CB Colonel Canadian Army Medical Corps VD Colonial Auxiliary Officer’s Decoration
Civilian
1891 House Surgeon Laryngologist Montreal General Hospital 1895 Professor Laryngology & Otology McGill University 1905 Chair Laryngology & Otology McGill University 8 Years Dean Medicine McGill University 1931 Professor Emeritus Laryngology & Otology McGill University
Military
1890 Captain Reserve Unit of the CAMC 1910 Lieutenant-Colonel Retired from a Reserve Unit of the CAMC 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Assistant Director Medical Service MD 4 (Montreal) 04/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding No. 3 Cdn General Hospital (McGill) BEF 03/1917 Lieutenant-Colonel Required Surgical Treatment in England; Left France 1917 Colonel Consultant in Otolaryngology at Boulogne 1918 Brigadier-General Assistant Director-General Cdn Medical Svc Overseas 1919 Brigadier-General Return to Dean of Medicine McGill University
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76 Colonel Frederick Gault FINLEY, CB Canadian Army Medical Corps
Born: 10/1861 Melbourne, Australia Immigrated 1864 Age of 3 Married: 1898 Emily B. Lovell Children 4 2 Daughters and 2 Sons Died: 06/07/1940 Montreal, Quebec
Honours
26/01/1918 CB Colonel Canadian Army Medical Corps 12/02/1918+ MID Colonel Canadian Army Medical Corps
Civilian
1885 Physician Medicine Montreal General Hospital Professor Medicine McGill University Principal Physician Montreal General Hospital
Military
1914 Major Officer in Charge No. 1 Cdn General Hospital 1916 Lieutenant-Colonel Consultant to Cdn Hospitals in England
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77 Brigadier-General Charles Hamilton MITCHELL, CB, CMG, DSO, VD, DEng Senior Intelligence Officer – War Officer London
Born: 18/02/1872 Petrolia, Ontario Married: 29/08/1901 Myra Ethlyn Stanton (died 01/05/1958) Child: 1902 One son who died at 3 weeks Died: 26/08/1941 Toronto, Ontario
Honours
06/07/1918 CB Lieutenant-Colonel Central Ontario Regiment 28/07/1917 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel Headquarters Staff 01/07/1916 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Forces 04/12/1918+ MID Mentioned-in-Despatches Earl of Cavan LCol 7X MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 7X 22/09/1917 Officer Order of Leopold Belgium LCol 22/04/1916 Officer Legion of Honour France LCol 19/10/1918 Officer Order of the Crown Italy LCol 1916 VD Volunteer Officer’s Decoration
Civilian
1898 Civil Engineer Hydraulic & Hydro-Electric Power Development 1899 Assist City Engineer Niagara Falls 1906 Consulting Toronto with his brother Percival 1920 Dean Engineering University of Toronto 1941 Dean Served until his death
Military
1899 Lieutenant 44th Lincoln and Welland Regiment 1911 Major Corps of Guides / Div. Intel. 2nd Div Toronto 1914 Major GSO3 HQ, 1st Canadian Division 08/1915 LCol GOO2 Intelligence 2nd Canadian Division 10/1916 Lieutenant-Colonel GSO1 Intelligence 2nd Canadian Division 10/1916 Colonel Head of Intelligence, 2nd Army (British) 10/1918 Brigadier-General Senior Intelligence Officer War Office London 06/1919 Brigadier-General General Staff of the British Army in Italy in CEF 1919 Brigadier-General BGen (Intelligence) War Office, London 1920 Brigadier-General Retire
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78 Major-General Donald Macdonald HOGARTH, CMG, DSO Quartermaster-General United Kingdom
Born: 01/05/1873 Osceola, Ontario (Ottawa Valley) Married: 27/06/1900 Sarah Harriet Porter Children 2 Sons Died: 27/06/1950 Toronto, Ontario
Honours
06/07/1918 CMG Brigadier-General 28/07/1917 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel 01/11/1920+ Medal Medaille d’Honneur Avec Glaives in Gold 14/12/1918 2nd Class Order of Danilo Montenegro BGen WWI MID Mentioned-in-Despatches 1935 King George V Jubilee Medal
Civilian
Civil Engineer 1st Construction of CPR \ Lake Superior Division 1932 Steep Rock Iron Mines Limited 1942 President Steep Rock Iron Mines Limited Member Canadian Mining Hall of Fame 12/1911 to 05/1923 MPP Ontario Port Arthur, Ontario Conservative 12/1926 to 05/1934 MPP Ontario Port Arthur, Ontario Independent Conser.
Military
1904 Subaltern Royal Canadian Engineers 1914 Lieutenant Camp Engineer, Valcartier 1915 Captain Royal Canadian Engineers 1915 Major Royal Canadian Engineers 16/04/1916 Captain Reverts to Captain at his request CASC 03/12/1916 Lieutenant-Colonel To be Temporary Lieutenant Colonel CASC 07/01/1917 Lieutenant-Colonel Director of Supply and Transport CASC 07/07/1917 Colonel Temp Colonel Dir of Supply & Transport CASC 1917 Lieutenant-Colonel Acting Quartermaster-General CEF 19/02/1918 Brigadier-General Quartermaster-General CF in UK LG 18/03/18 12/12/1919 Major-General Retired with rank of Major-General
1935 Chief Engineer Canadian Battlefields Memorials Commission France and Belgium
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79 Major-General Sir Donald Alexander MACDONALD, Kt, CMG, ISO Quartermaster-General
Born: 31/10/1845 Cornwall, Upper Canada Died: 04/05/1920 Ottawa, Ontario
Honours
11/05/1918 Knight Made a Knight Bachelor by King George V 28/11/1908 CMG Brigadier-General QMG 20/06/1903 ISO Colonel – Superintendent of Stores Militia
Military
1863 Ensign 2nd Cornwall Volunteer Militia Rifle Company 1865 Lieutenant 2nd Cornwall Volunteer Militia Rifle Company 1866 Captain Served during the Fenian Raids 1866 1870 Captain Served during the Red River Expedition 1870 1871 Major 2nd Cornwall Volunteer Militia Rifle Company 1874 Major Joined Stores Branch Dept Militia & Defence 1877 Lieutenant-Colonel Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 1885 Lieutenant-Colonel Served during the North-West Rebellion 1896 Lieutenant-Colonel Chief Superintendent of Stores 1900 Colonel Promoted to Colonel – Superintendent of Stores 1903 Colonel Director-General of Ordnance for Canada 15/11/1904 Colonel Quartermaster-General of the Canadian Militia 1908 Brigadier-General Quartermaster-General of the Canadian Militia 1911 Major-General Quartermaster-General of the Canadian Militia 1914 Major-General Equipped 1st Canadian Division for overseas 31/10/1917 Major-General Retires as QMG
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80 Major-General James Lyons BIGGAR, CMG Quartermaster-General
Born: 16/07/1856 Carrying Place, Ontario Married: 1882 Mary Scott Elliot Children 3 1 Daughter and 2 Sons Died: 19/02/1922 Toronto, Ontario
Honours
06/07/1918 CMG Brigadier-General 19/10/1918 3rd Class Order of Saint Sava Serbia 11/09/1920 Officer Legion of Honour France
Military
1881 Lieutenant 15th Regiment, The Argyle Light Infantry 17/06/1900 Major DAAG Staff of Base Commandant LG 04/09/1900+ 1900 Lieutenant-Colonel South Africa – Staff Officer Overseas Colonials 1900 Lieutenant-Colonel Commander 15th Canadian Field Hospital S.A. 1912 Lieutenant-Colonel Sr Staff Officer HQ Director Supplies/Transport 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) 02/11/1917 Brigadier-General Quartermaster-General Canadian Forces 1918 Major-General Quartermaster-General Canadian Forces 30/06/1920 Major-General Retired from Canadian Army
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81 Major-General The Honourable Alexander Duncan McRAE, CB Director of Supplies and Services
Born: 17/11/1874 Glencoe, Ontario Married: 23/02/1900 Blaunche Lattimer Howe Children 3 Daughters Died: 26/06/1946 Ottawa, Ontario
Honours
28/07/1917 CB Major-General
Civilian
1892 Banking Duluth, Minnesota 1895 Insurance Insuring Grain Elevators (own business) 1897 Vice-President First National Bank of Hibbing 1899 Invested Granite Quarry 1900 Formed Saskatchewan Valley Land Company in Winnipeg Owned 5 million acres of Land in Saskatchewan 1907 Sawmill Owner 3 miles in Fraser Mills (Coquitlam) Built Hycroft Manor in Shaughnessy – 30 rooms \ now the University of BC’s Women’s Club 1909 Tugboats Canadian Tugboat Company owned 1912 Lumber Mill Largest Lumber & Wood Manufacturing in the World 1926 - 1930 MP Vancouver North (Conservative) 1931 – 1946 Senator Vancouver (Conservative) – served until he died
Military Sam Hughes Appointed him an Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel
1912 Honorary LCol 6th Regiment, The Duke of Connaught’s Own Rifles 1914 Honorary LCol To Europe to Purchase Horses for the Army 1914 Honorary LCol Re-organized the Remount Commission 1916 Major-General Director of Supplies and Services 1917 Major-General Seconded to Lord Beaverbrook \ Britain’s Minister of Information 18/02/1918 Major-General Cdn A.S.C. to be Temp MGen LG 18/03/18+ 19/02/1918 Temp Brigadier Seconded duty with Imperial Govt LG 18/03/18+ 1918 Major-General Generally believed he turned down a Knighthood 12/1918 Major-General Left the Army
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82 Major-General William Alexander LOGIE, CB General Officer Commanding – Military District #6
Born: 26/05/1866 Hamilton, Ontario Married: 1891 Mary Hamilton Wylie Died: 06/06/1933 Toronto, Ontario
Children: 4 2 Sons; 2 Daughters 20/10/1944 KIA Major Alexander Chisolm Logie \ killed Kappelenbach, Belgium (WWII)
Honours
06/07/1918 CB Major-General
Civilian
1887 BA Queen’s University 1888 MA Queen’s University 1892 LLB Osgoode Hall Law School 1892 Lawyer Hamilton 1918 Justice Supreme Court of Ontario 1930 Chief Justice Retires from the Supreme Court of Ontario
Military
1902 Captain 13th Regiment / Helped form regiment 08/1903 Captain 71st Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Hamilton 1903 Lieutenant-Colonel CO Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders 1911 Lieutenant-Colonel End time as CO 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel CO Training Camps Niagara Falls & Borden 1915 Brigadier-General GOC - Military District #2 Toronto 1918 Major-General Retires
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83 Major-General Thomas BENSON, CMG Master-General of Ordnance GOC – Military District #9 Halifax
Born: 22/04/1860 St. Catherines, Ontario Married 04/1877 Agnes Pearce Merrett Died:
Honours
06/07/1918 CMG Major-General Canadian Forces
Military
08/02/1879 Cadet Royal Military College Kingston RMC #70 08/1883 Lieutenant Canadian Artillery 1884 Lieutenant ‘A’ Battery RCA, The Citadel Quebec, Quebec 1885 Lieutenant ‘A’ Battery Regiment Canadian Artillery NW Force 1889 Captain Commandant Canadian Wimbledon (now Bisley) Team 1896 Captain Canadian Artillery 1902 Major Canadian Artillery 01/04/1908 Colonel Commandant Royal School of Artillery, Quebec 1911 Colonel Commander Easter Ontario Division 1911 Colonel Commandant Camp Borden 01/03/1913 Major-General Master-General of Ordnance 31/03/1916 Major-General GOC - Military District #9 Halifax 02/1918 Major-General On Leave Halifax; Replaced by MGen F.L. Lessard 07/1918 Major-General Retire
RMC Classmates
#67 Zachary Taylor Wood (Future RCMP Commissioner)
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84 Brigadier-General Alfred Eugene Damase LABELLE, VD
Born: 24/08/1866 Montreal, PQ Married: 1900 Amelle Silcotte Died: 12/1927
Honours
18/04/1918+ Commander Legion of Honour France T/BGen Reserve of Officers Croix Croix de Guerre France T/BGen VD Volunteer Officer’s Decoration – 65th Regiment 1885 Medal Northwest Rebellion
Civilian
1883 Employee W.W. Olgilvie (‘The Miller King’) 1897 Sales Manager Ogilvie Flour Mills Company Ltd. (name change) 1910 Managing Director St. Lawrence Flour Mills Company President Canadian National Millers Association
Military
1882 Private 65th Regiment 1885 In the Ranks Northwest Rebellion (received Medal) To All ranks 65th Regiment 1897 Lieutenant-Colonel CO - 65th Regiment 1897 Lieutenant-Colonel Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Contingent 1902 Lieutenant-Colonel CO – 7th Infantry Brigade 01/01/1907 Lieutenant-Colonel CO – 65th Regiment – Plans for Armoury 1908 Lieutenant-Colonel CO – Canadian Bisley Team 19/05/1909 Lieutenant-Colonel One of the Signatories Cdn Red Cross Society 22/09/1914 Colonel CEF CO – 65th Regiment 21/10/1915 Brigadier-General Reserve of Officers, Cdn Permanent Forces 30/05/1920 Brigadier-General Returns to Permanent Force
65th Regiment – now Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal (in Quebec City)
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85
MINISTERS
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DEPUTY MINISTERS
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WWI
86 The Honourable Lieutenant-General Sir Sam HUGHES, PC, KCB, VD Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence
Born: 08/01/1853 Darlington, Canada West Married: Caroline J. Preston Died 1873 Mary Burk Married 1875 Son: Major-General Sir Garnet Burk Hughes, KCB Daughters: Two Brother Brigadier John Hughes Brother Brigadier William Hughes 4th Division Died: 24/08/1921 Lindsay, Ontario
Honours
29/09/1915 KCB Civil 29/09/1915 01/10/1911 PC Privy Council VD Volunteer Officer’s Decorations
Civilian
1875 Normal School then Teacher Toronto 1885 Publisher The Victoria Warder in Lindsay, Ontario 1892 Elected MP Victoria North (Lindsay, Ontario) 1897 Sold the Victoria Warder Lindsay, Ontario 1903 MP Victoria and Haliburton 1911 Minister of Militia Borden’s Conservative Government 1916 Fired as Minister Remained an MP until his death
Military
1866 Private (age 12) 45th West Durham Battalion of Infantry 1866 Private Fenian Raids 1860 and 1870 1873 Lieutenant 45th West Durham Battalion of Infantry 1878 Captain Adjutant 45th West Durham Battalion 1897 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 45th West Durham Battalion 1899 Civilian 2nd Boer War as a civilian 02/1900 Lieutenant-Colonel Supply & Transport Officer with the B.A. 1900 Lieutenant-Colonel Intelligence Officer British Army 07/1900 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding a Force of B.A. Irregulars 1900 Colonel Sent back to Canada from South Africa 1900 Colonel Commanding Officer 45th Norfolk Regiment 1903 Colonel Railway Intelligence Officer 1908 Colonel Quebec Tercentenary Committee 10/10/11 Colonel Minister of Militia and Defence 1912 Major-General Gets his Major-General Appointment Backdated 1914 Major-General Assembled 1st Division CEF 1916 Lieutenant-General Honorary Appointment British Army 1916 Lieutenant-General Remains a Member of Parliament
87 The Honourable Lieutenant-General Sir Sam HUGHES, PC, KCB, VD Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence
Medals:
Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Bath (Civil) KCB Red River Medal bar Fenian Raid 1870 South Africa Medal with Bars Orange Free State and Cape Colony Queen Victoria Jubilee Medal King George V Coronation Medal Colonial Auxiliary Officer’s Decoration (VD)
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88 Major-General Sir John Wallace CARSON, Kt, CB Special Representative of the Minister of Militia (Sir Sam Hughes) in Britain
Born: 13/10/1864 Montreal, Quebec Married: 1885 Mary A.R. Corran Children 2 Daughters 2 Daughters Died: 13/10/1922 Montreal, Quebec
Honours
25/05/1917+ Knighthood Major-General 22/01/1916+ CB (civil) Major-General 09/02/1918 First Class Order of St. Stanislas 1st Class
Civilian
Pre War Mining Magnate Vice-President Crown Trust Company
Military
1878 Member Canadian Militia 1905 Lieutenant-Colonel 5th Royal Highlanders of Montreal 1909 retired From Canadian Militia 1911 Lieutenant-Colonel Reorganized the 1st Battalion Prince of Wales Fusiliers into a Regiment of the Foot Guards to be known as the 1st Regiment, Canadian Grenadier Guards 1914 Colonel Commanding 1st Regiment Cdn Grenadier Guards 08/1914 Colonel Special Representative Minister of Militia (Sir Sam Hughes) in Britain 1915 Brigadier Special Representative 08/1916 Major-General Chair, Minister’s Sub Council in Britain 1917 Major-General Position terminated
Note: Lieutenant-General Sir Sam Hughes also appointed Sir William Maxwell Aitken as his War Office contact in Britain (and a Canadian War time publicist and Archivist). Aitken and Carson worked together. Aitken later became Lord Beaverbrook.
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89 Major-General The Honourable Sydney Chilton MEWBURN, PC, CMG, KC Minister of Militia and Defence
Born: 04/12/1863 Hamilton, Canada West Married: Mary Caroline Labatt Children 3 2 Sons and 1 Daughter Died: 11/08/1956 Hamilton, Ontario
Honours:
CG 22/09/1917 CMG Major-General RO 10/01/1919a 2nd Class Order of the White Eagle (Serbia) MGen Long Service Medal
Civilian
1885 Lawyer Ontario 1910 KC King’s Council 12/10/1917 PC Privy Council Member 1917 - 1926 MP Member of Parliament Hamilton East Conservative 12/10/1927 Minister Minister of Militia & Defence 01/01/1920 End Minister Remains Member of Parliament until 1926
Military
1910 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Royal Regiment of Hamilton 04/1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Assistant Adjutant-General Military District #2 06/1915 Brigadier-General Director-General Canadian Defence Force 08/09/1915 Major-General Acting Adjutant-General Canadian Army in Canada 11/10/1917 Major-General Ends AG position 12/10/1917 Resigns To become an MP/Minister of Militia & Defence
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90 Major-General The Honourable Sydney Chilton MEWBURN, PC, CMG, VD, KC Minister of Militia and Defence
Honours and Medals
CMG Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George British War Medal Victoria Medal King George V Silver Jubilee Medal King George VI Coronation Medal EIIR Coronation Medal Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration (VD) Colonial Auxiliary Long Service Medal 2nd Class Order of the White Eagle (Serbia)
91 Major-General The Honourable Sir Marie-Joseph-Eugène FISET KT, CMG, DSO, KStJ, ED, MD Director General – Army Medical Service Deputy-Minister of Defence Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec
Born: 15 March 1874 Rimouski, Quebec Married: 20 May 1902 Zoé-Mary-Stella Taschereau Children 4 daughters Died: 08 June 1951 Rivière-du-Loup
Honours:
10/08/1917+ Knight Major-General 23/01/1915 CMG Surgeon MGen Deputy Minister of Militia 31/10/1902+ DSO Lieutenant-Colonel 27/06/1941+ KStJ Major-General, The Honourable 06/10/1917+ Commander (02/06/17+) Legion of Honour France (corrects) 31/03/1925+ 2nd Class Order of St. Sava Serbia 29/06/1923+ Croix Croix de Guerre Slovac Republic MGen 29/05/1925+ Commander Order of the Crown Belgium Commander, Grand Cross Haiti National Order of Honour and Merit 3X MID South Africa
Civilian
1898 Physician Laval University 1900 Ear Nose & Throat London, England and Paris, France 1924 Member of Parliament Liberal for Rimouski 1939 Member of Parliament for Rimouski ends 12/1939 18th Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec 10/1950 Ends period as Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec
Military
1890 Private 89th Regiment (age 16) 1895 Lieutenant 89th Regiment (Father was Surgeon in the 89th) 05/1899 Surgeon 89th Regiment 1898 Major 89th Regiment 1899 Major 2nd Battalion, RCR – South Africa (3 MIDs) 30/10/1899 Major Leave Quebec, RCR – QM - on S.S. Sardinian 11/1899 Major Arrive Cape Town, South Africa 1900 Major Returned to Canada and ENT practice Rimouski 1901 Brevet LCol Promoted 11/1902 Lieutenant-Colonel Adjutant in the Army Medical Service 07/1903 Colonel Director-General Army Medical Service 22/12/1906 Colonel Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence 1914 Major-General Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence WWI Surgeon General 31/03/1924 Major-General Retire as Deputy Minister of Militia & Defence
92 Major-General The Honourable Sir Marie-Joseph-Eugène FISET KT, CMG, DSO, KStJ, ED, MD Director General – Army Medical Service Deputy-Minister of Defence Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec
Medals
Knight Knight Bachelor’s Badge CMG Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George DSO Distinguished Service Order KStJ Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John South Africa Medal Bars Paardeberg Driefontain Orange River Colony Transvaal George V Coronation George V Jubilee Efficiency Decoration (ED) Commander Grand Cross, National Order of Honour and Merit Haiti Order of St. Sava Serbia Order of the Crown Belgium Commander Legion of Honour France
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93 Sir Albert Edward KEMP, KCMG, PC Minister of National Defence
Born: 11/08/1858 Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville, Quebec Married: First 1879 Cecilia Amanda Wilson Children 3 3 Daughters Married: Second 1921 Norman Copping Children 2 2 Daughters Died: 12/08/1929 Toronto, Ontario
Honours
24/03/1917 KCMG Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael & St. George 10/10/1911 PC
Civilian
1885 Toronto Co-Owner Dominion Tin & Stamping Works 1888 Toronto Kemp Manufacturing Company 1895 President Canadian Manufacturers’ Association 1900 MP Member of Parliament Toronto East Conservative 1904 MP Member of Parliament Toronto East Conservative 1908 Not MP Defeated as MP 10/10/1911 MP Member of Parliament 1911 Minister Minister without Portfolio 1911 Co-Owner Sheet Metal Products Company of Canada Ltd 1914 MP Member of Parliament Toronto East Conservative 1915 Chair War Purchasing Commission 1916 MP Member of Parliament (By-Election) Unionist 23/11/1916 Minister Militia and Defence 1917 MP Member of Parliament Unionist 12/10/1917 Minister Overseas Military Forces of Canada 1918 Minister Imperial War Cabinet 1919 Commissioner For Canada at 1919 Paris Peace Conference 13/07/1910 Minister Without Portfolio 04/11/1921 Appointed Senate (representing Toronto) until his death 28/12/1921 No Longer Minister
Mewburn, Borden and Kemp
94
FOUNDERS
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REGIMENTS
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RANKS
95 Major General Sir Henry Mill PELLATT, Kt, CVO, VD
Born: 06/01/1859 Kingston, Ontario Married: 1924 Mary Dodgson Child: One Son \ 1st Chief Commissioner Cdn Girl Guides Married: 1927 Catherine Welland Merritt Died: 08/03/1939 Mimico, Ontario
Honours and Medals
12/12/1905+ Kt Benefactor of the Queen’s Own Rifles 20/09/1910+ CVO Colonel – Commandant Queen’s Own Rifles 09/08/1912+ KStJ Colonel – Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada D.C.L. Honorary Degree Doctor of Civil Law
Civilian Stock Broker Brought Hydro-Electricity to Toronto President Toronto Electric Light Company Railway Investments Built Casa Loma
Military
02/11/1876 Rifleman Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1901 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer, Queen’s Own Rifles 1905 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer, Queen’s Own Rifles 1910 Colonel Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1912 Brigadier-General 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade 1920 Major-General Promoted on Retirement from QORC 1921 Honorary Colonel Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada
96 Medals of Major General Sir Henry Mill PELLATT, Kt, CVO, DCL, VD
On Display at the Queen’s Own Rifles Museum at Casa Loma in Toronto
Commander – Royal Victorian Order Knight of Justice - Order of St. John Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Medal King Edward VII Coronation Medal King George V Coronation Medal Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration (Edward VII) Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal Service Medal of the Order of St. John with one bar
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97 Brigadier-General Andrew Hamilton GAULT, DSO, OBE, ED, CD Founder of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI)
Born: 18/08/1882 Hatch Court, Near Taunton, Somerset,England Father: Andrew Frederick The Cotton King of Canada \ of Cdn Parents Married: 29/09/1972 Dorothy Blanche Shuckburgh Married: Marguerite Stevens Married: Third Wife Died: 28/11/1958 Montreal, Quebec
Honours
22/07/1916 DSO Major - PPCLI 05/07/1919 OBE 1st Type Lieutenant-Colonel – PPCLI 29/05/1920 Officer Order of Leopold (Belgium) 09/02/1918 2nd Class Order of St. Anne with Swords (Russia) 25/08/1915+ 3rd Class Order of St. Anne with Swords (Russia) 4x MID Mentioned-in-Despatches
Military
1900 Lieutenant 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles – Boer War 01/1902 Major Promoted T/Major 2 CMR in S.A. LG 22/08/02+ 1902 Lieutenant 5th Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) 1914 Captain Founder of the PPCLI PPCLI $100,000 12/08/1914 Major Deputy Commanding Officer PPCLI 28/02/1915 Major Wounded at St. Eloi PPCLI 08/05/1915 Major Temporary CO PPCLI - wounded PPCLI 08/05/1915 Major Wounded at Frezenberg PPCLI 17/10/1915 Major Rejoins unit as 2nd i/c PPCLI 02/06/1916 Major Wounded at Sanctuary Wood PPCLI 20/06/1917 Major Rejoins unit PPCLI 20/06/1917 Major Appointed ADC (GOC 3rd Division) LG 31/07/17+ 28/11/1917 Lieutenant-Colonel CO Cdn Corps Reinforcement Camp (CCRC) 30/03/1918 Lieutenant-Colonel Eastern Ontario Seconded CCRC LG 09/10/18+ 20/11/1918 Lieutenant-Colonel Ceases Secondment as CO CCRC LG 04/04/19+ 21/11/1918 Lieutenant-Colonel CO – PPCLI PPCLI 20/03/1919 Lieutenant-Colonel Demobilized 1918 Lieutenant-Colonel Wounded – loses his left leg 03/1919 Lieutenant-Colonel Retires – moves to England 1940 Colonel Canadian Army in England 1942 Brigadier-General CO Group ‘A’ Cdn Reinforcement Unit England 1945 Brigadier-General Returned to Canada – retired 1948 Honorary Colonel PPCLI 1958 Honorary Colonel Died – His estate at Mont St.-Hilaire went to McGill University Civilian
1924 MP British House of Commons (Conservative Unionist) 1935 MP Ends term in British House of Commons MP For Taunton Division
Family
Brigadier Hamilton Gault's complex marital life, encompassed three wives and benchmark litigation.
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98 Brigadier-General Andrew Hamilton GAULT, DSO, OBE, ED Founder of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI)
Medals DSO OBE 1st Type Queen’s South Africa with 3 Clasps 1914/1915 Star British War Medal British Victory Medal with MID Defence Medal Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp 1939/1945 War Medal King George VI Coronation Medal Efficiency Decoration Canadian Forces Decoration (EIIR) 2nd Class Order of St. Anne with Swords (Russia) 3rd Class Order of St. Anne with Swords (Russia) Officer Order of Leopold (Belgium)
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99
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MAJOR-GENERALS
PRE – WORLD WAR I
100 Major-General James F. WILSON Commandant Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery
Born: 1852 Kingston, Ontario Died: 1911
Military
1870 Ensign 47th Battalion of Volunteer Infantry 1871 2nd Lieutenant “A” Battery Kingston Field Battery Permanent 1884 Major 1st Brigade, Royal Artillery in the Sudan \ MID and awarded the Khedive’s Star 1885 Major Northwest Rebellion “A” Battery – Batoche 1892 Major Captured Captain Bouchard, ‘Smuggler King’ 1893 Brevet LCol Command 1 Company RC Garrison Art. at Quebec 07/1897 Brevet LCol Command Royal School of Artillery at Quebec \ Inspector of Artillery M.D. 5 to 9 and 12 12/1903 Brevet LCol Inspector of Garrison Artillery 05/1903 Brevet Colonel 1st Cdn Born Commandant Royal Regiment Cdn Art. 05/1904 Brevet Colonel ADC to the Governor-General, Lord Earl Grey 1907 Colonel First Commandant Camp Petawawa 15/11/1907 Major-General 1st Cdn Born Major-General in the Regular Force 15/11/1907 Major-General And released as medically unfit 15/11/1907 Major-General rank was Honorary on Retirement
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101 General Sir William Dillon OTTER, KCB, CVO, VD Director of Internment of Enemy Nationals
Born: 03/12/1843 Clinton, Ontario Married: 03/10/1865 Marianne Porter of Toronto Died: 06/05/1929 Toronto, Ontario
Honours
05/07/1913 KCB Major-General 19/04/1901+ CB Colonel 23/07/1908 CVO Brigadier 16/04/1901+ MID Mentioned-in-Dispatches South Africa Colonel Military
1861 Private Victoria Rifle Company of Toronto 10/1861 Private 2nd Battalion Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 12/1864 Lieutenant Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada (QORC) 08/1865 Captain Queen’s Own Rifles / Adjutant / Fenian War 1869 Major Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1873 Major Second in Cmd Wimbledon (now Bisley Team) 1874 Lieutenant-Colonel Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1875 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer QORC 1883 Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant Cdn Wimbledon (now Bisley Team) 1883 Lieutenant-Colonel Commander Infantry School Corps (Permanent) 1884 Lieutenant-Colonel Commander Cdn Regiment of Infantry (PF) 1885 Lieutenant-Colonel Commander Battleford Column NW Rebellion 1886 Lieutenant-Colonel Commander Military District Number 2 1893 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer Royal Canadian Regiment 04/1896 Lieutenant-Colonel Inspector of Infantry 10/1899 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer RCR in South Africa 10/1900 Colonel Commanding Officer RCR in South Africa 12/1900 Colonel Home from South Africa 1901 Colonel Commander MD #2 Western Ontario 1907 Brigadier-General Promoted along with 4 other Cdn Officers 1908 Brigadier-General Chief of General Staff (CGS) Canadian Army 11/1910 Acting MGen Chief of General Staff (CGS) Canadian Army 07/1912 Major-General Chief of General Staff 12/1912 Major-General Retired 1914 Major-General Director of Internment of Enemy Nationals 1919 Major-General Ended work on Internment 1919 Major-General Otter Commission * 06/1920 Major-General Military Service Ended 1922 General Promoted and officially retired 1922 Honorary Colonel Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada
* First Canadian Born Officer to become Chief of the General Staff ** establish links of perpetuation from the units of Canadian Expeditionary Force back to the institutionally separate units of the Canadian Militia in the years following the First World War. This establishment of perpetuation, based primarily on geographical connections through original recruiting areas of the CEF battalions, provided a basis by which the achievements and battle honours of the CEF units transferred back to the units of the standing Militia. Without this work of the Otter Commission the CEF and its achievements would have had no continuance with existing units of the Canadian Army today
The Militia Act was changed in October 1900 to allow senior officers to become full Colonels.
102 General Sir William Dillon OTTER, KCB, CVO, VD
Medals:
KCB (Military) Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Bath CB (Military) Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Bath CVO Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Canadian General Service Medal with two bars Fenian Raid 1866 Fenian Raid 1870 Northwest Canada Medal with one bar Saskatchewan Queen’s South African Medal with four bars Johannesburg 29 May 1900 Driefontein 10 March 1900 Paardeberg 17-26 February 1900 Cape Colony 11 October 1899 - 31 May 1902 Edward VII Coronation Medal Colonial Officer’s Efficiency Decoration
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103 Major-General Charles William DRURY, CB Commander Canadian Artillery
Born: 1856 Died: 06/1913 Kingston, Ontario
Honours
19/04/1901+ CB Lieutenant-Colonel 1885 MID Mentioned-in-Dispatches NW Rebellion 16/04/1901+ MID Mentioned-in-Dispatches South Africa Colonel
Military
01/1874 Lieutenant New Brunswick Garrison Artillery Brigade Saint John 1885 Captain North-West Rebellion ‘A’ Battery RC Artillery 1893 LCol Commander ‘A’ Battery RC Field Artillery Kingston / Commandant Royal School of Artillery Kingston 30/10/1899 LCol 1st Canadian Contingent to South Africa Command CFA 02/1900 LCol 2nd Contingent Arrives – CO Artillery 1900 LCol Return to Canada 04/1905 Colonel Command Military District Number 6 at Halifax 1907 Brigadier-General Promoted along with 3 other Canadian Officers 06/1912 Major-General Commander Canadian Artillery 06/1913 Major-General Died while in the service
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104 Brigadier-General Septimus Julius Augustus DENISON, CMG Chief of Staff – Western Ontario
Born: 03/09/1859 Rusholme, Toronto, York, Ontario Married Minnie Lowe Died: 1937 Toronto, York, Ontario
Honours
19/04/1901+ CMG Major – ADC to Lord Roberts / RCR in S.A. 1900 - 2x MID Mentioned in Despatches in South Africa
Military
13/03/1878 Cadet First RMC Class - RMC #7 21/02/1880 2nd Lieutenant The King’s Own First Stafford Regiment 03/08/1887 Captain 4th The South Staffordshire Reg’t LG 02/08/1887 03/10/1888 Captain Seconded Infantry School Cdn Militia LG 02/10/1888 03/10/1888 Lieutenant Infantry School Canadian Militia LG 02/10/1888 04/01/1893 Major Promoted – 3rd & 4th South Staff’d LG 03/01/1893 28/07/1894 Major Seconded – Staff Appoint Cdn Militia LG 04/09/1894 19/06/1895 Major Resigns his Commission; Retains Rank LG 02/07/1895 1898 Captain ADC to Lord Aberdeen, Governor-General 30/10/1899 Captain Leave Quebec, RCR – QM - on S.S. Sardinian 11/1899 Captain Arrive Cape Town, South Africa 1899 Brevet Major Serving with the RCR in South Africa 25/01/1900 Brevet Major RCR - ADC to FM Lord Roberts C-in-C LG 16/03/1900 01/02/1901 Major Procession Queen Victoria’s Funeral LG 22/05/1901 01/02/1901 Major Serving at Headquarters Staff of the Army ADC to HRH the Prince of Wales Tour of Canada 1910 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer Royal Canadian Regiment 01/01/1913 Brigadier-General DOC – 4th Divisional Area 1916 Brigadier-General Chief of Staff, Western Ontario
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105 Brigadier-General Lawrence BUCHAN, CMG, CVO District Officer Commanding – Quebec Military District
Born: 29/01/1847 Died: 08/10/1909 Montreal, Quebec
Honours
19/04/1901+ CMG LCol Royal Cdn Regiment 16/04/1901+ MID Mentioned-in-Despatches South Africa 17/10/1908 CVO BGen Commanding Quebec Command 1885 NW Canada Medal Northwest Campaign Medal with bar Saskatchewan 1901 QSA Queen’s South Africa with four bars
Military
1872 Ensign Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1875 Captain Adjutant Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1885 Captain Northwest Campaign (Medal) 1898 Lieutenant-Colonel CO Royal Canadian Regiment 1899 Lieutenant-Colonel 2 i/c Otter in S.A. (Substantive Major) 1900 Lieutenant-Colonel South Africa 1905 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer - Quebec Military District 1907 Brigadier-General Promoted along with 4 other Cdn Officers 1907 Brigadier-General Commanding Quebec Command 1909 Brigadier-General Died of pneumonia contracted while visiting / his brother in Vancouver
Brigadier-General Buchan wrote the opening stanza to ‘O Canada’. He had had the French version of the lyrics translated into English but did not like how it started so played with it until he was satisfied. The song came from the French song, ‘Chant Nationale’.
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106 CANADIAN BRIGADIER-GENERALS PROMOTED in 1907
Brigadier-General Donald Alexander MACDONALD Infantry
1907 Brigadier-General Promoted along with 4 other Cdn Officers
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Brigadier-General William Henry COTTON Royal Canadian Artillery
1907 Brigadier-General Promoted along with 4 other Cdn Officers
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Brigadier-General Charles William DRURY Royal Canadian Artillery
1907 Brigadier-General Promoted along with 4 other Cdn Officers
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Brigadier-General Lawrence BUCHAN Royal Canadian Regiment
1907 Brigadier-General Promoted along with 4 other Cdn Officers
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Brigadier-General Francois Louis LESSARD Royal Canadian Dragoons
1911 Brigadier-General Promoted along with 4 other Cdn Officers
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107 Canadian Major-Generals Promoted in 1912
Four Canadian Officers promoted to Major-General 1912
Major-General Charles William DRURY, CB
Major-General Sir Donald Alexander MACDONALD, Kt, CMG, ISO
Major-General François-Louis LESSARD, CB
Major-General Sir William Dillon OTTER, KCB, CVO, VD
Canadian Major-Generals Promoted in 1914
Four Canadian Officers promoted to Major-General 1914
Major-General Smith Major-General Thomas Benson Master-General of Ordnance Major-General D.R. RUTHERFORD DOC MD Halifax Major-General W.E. HODGINS DOC MD London
Major-General D.R. RUTHERFORD DOC - MD Halifax
Born: Died:
Honours
Civilian
Military
1914 Colonel GOC MD #9 Halifax 12/1914 Brigadier-General GOC MD #9 Halifax 10/1915 Major-General GOC MD #9 Halifax 11/1915 Major-General Retired due to Hearing Defect
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108 Major-General François-Louis LESSARD, CB Adjutant-General
Born: 09/12/1860 Quebec City Married: 1882 Florence Lee Children: 3 3 Daughters Died: 07/08/1927 Meadowvale, Ontario (Mississauga)
Honours
19/04/1901+ CB Lieutenant-Colonel South Africa 16/04/1901+ MID Mentioned-in-Dispatches South Africa LCol 1885 NWR Medal Northwest Rebellion Medal 1900 QSA Medal Queen’s South Africa medal with 5 Clasps 1902 KSA Medal King’s South Africa medal with 2 Clasps
Military
1880 2nd Lieutenant Quebec Garrison Artillery 1884 Lieutenant Cavalry School Corps 1885 Lieutenant North-West Rebellion (Medal) 1888 Captain Royal Canadian Dragoons 1894 Major Royal Canadian Dragoons 1896 Major Inspector of Cavalry 1898 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer Royal Cdn Dragoons 30/10/1899 Lieutenant-Colonel Sailed from Quebec to Cape Town 1st Contingent 21/01/1900 Lieutenant-Colonel 2nd Contingent sailed from Halifax 17/02/1900 Lieutenant-Colonel 2nd Contingent arrives Cape Town – Takes Command 1900 Brevet Colonel Promoted Brevet Colonel in S.A. 1901 Brevet Colonel Canadian Militia 1907 Colonel Adjutant-General Cdn Militia – Substantive Col. 1908 Brigadier-General Adjutant-General Canadian Militia 1912 Major-General Adjutant-General Canadian Militia 12/1914 Major-General Inspector-General Eastern Canada 02/1918 Major-General GOC Military District #9 Halifax 03/1918 Major-General In charge of Restoring Order in Quebec Riots \ because of conscription issue 12/1918 Major-General End tour Halifax 1919 Major-General Retires
Civilian
1913 Director Canadian National Exhibition 1919 Director CNE - retired
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MAJOR-GENERALS
BETWEEN WORLD WARS
110 Lieutenant-General Ernest Charles ASHTON, CB, CMG, VD, MD Adjutant-General – Canadian Army WWI
Born: 28/10/1873 Brantford Ontario Died: 19/08/1957 Victoria, British Columbia
Honours
29/06/1935 CB Major-General 26/01/1918 CMG Temporary Brigadier-General 3x MID Mentioned in Dispatches 1913 VD Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Decoration
Civilian
1898 Physician Trinity Medical College U. of Toronto 1898 House Surgeon Hospital for Sick Children Toronto 1899 Medical Superintendent Muskoka Cottage Sanitorium 1901 Staff Surgeon Brantford General Hospital
Military
1893 Provisional 2nd Lt Dufferin Rifles of Canada 1894 2nd Lieutenant Dufferin Rifles of Canada 1895 Captain Dufferin Rifles of Canada 1896 Captain Dufferin Rifles of Canada 1902 Major Dufferin Rifles of Canada 1907 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer Dufferin Rifles 1913 Lieutenant-Colonel Organized a Howitzer Battery RCA 1914 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 36th Battalion CEF 1915 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 9th Reserve Cdn Infantry Brig 1917 Brigadier GOC 15th Canadian Infantry Brigade CEF 01/01/1918 Major-General Adjutant General Canadian Army 17/08/1920 Major-General Quartermaster General 1930 Major-General Commander Military District 2 1933 Major-General Commander Military District 11 Esquimalt 1935 Major-General Chief of the General Staff 1938 Major-General Relinquished CGS position 1939 Major-General Inspector-General & Organize RCAMC 02/1941 Lieutenant-General Retired in Victoria, B.C.
46 Consecutive Years as a Commissioned Officer
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111 Major-General William Henry Pferinger ELKINS, CB, CBE, DSO and Bar Master General of Ordnance WWII
Born: 13/06/1883 Sherbrooke, Quebec Married: 1914 Phyllis Short Children: 2 2 Daughters Died: 20/12/1964 Kingston, Ontario
Honours
05/06/1943 CB Major-General 01/01/1935 CBE Brigadier-General 20/09/1919 DSO and Bar Lieutenant-Colonel For Montay 26/01/1918 DSO Lieutenant-Colonel 3x MID Mentioned in Despatches
Promotions
22/06/1905 Lieutenant RCA 22/06/1910 Brevet Captain RCA 29/11/1910 Captain RCA 01/07/1915 Brevet Major RCA 22/11/1915 Major RCA 17/12/1916 Brevet LCol RCA 14/08/1920 Lieutenant-Colonel RCA 07/07/1926 Colonel RCA 1935 Brigadier RCA 09/12/1938 Major-General
Military
06/1903 Cadet Royal Military College Kingston Cadet #624 06/1905 Lieutenant Royal Canadian Artillery ‘B’ Battery RCHA 1906 Lieutenant ‘N’ Battery Royal Horse Artillery in India 06/1910 Brevet Captain ‘A’ Battery RCHA 11/1910 Brevet Captain ‘A’ Battery RCHA 1911 Captain ‘B’ Battery RCHA 1912 Captain Artillery Staff of the CGS at HQ Ottawa 1914 Captain RCHA – to England 07/1915 Captain RCHA – to France 07/1915 Brevet Major Commander ‘A’ Battery RCHA in France 12/1915 Major Commander ‘A’ Battery RCHA in France 12/1916 Brevet LCol Commander ‘A’ Battery RCHA in France 07/1917 Brevet LCol Commander RCHA Brigade 12/1917 Brevet LCol Evacuated from France due to Illness 04/1918 Brevet LCol Returned to France 10/1918 Brevet LCol Command Royal Field Battery plus ‘I’ & ‘N’ Battn 05/1919 Brevet LCol Return to Kingston 08/1920 Lieutenant-Colonel Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel 1922 Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant Royal Cdn Garrison Artillery Halifax 1924 Lieutenant-Colonel Camp Commandant Petawawa 07/1926 Colonel Commander RCHA Brigade 10/1926 Colonel Staff Officer Artillery Duties 1930 Brigadier-General Commandant Royal Military College 1935 Brigadier-General District Officer Commanding Military District #2 12/1938 Major-General Master General of Ordnance 07/1940 Major-General GOC-in-Chief Atlantic Command 07/1943 Major-General Retired
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112 Major-General William Henry Pferinger ELKINS, CB, CBE, DSO and Bar Master General of Ordnance WWII
Medals: CB Commander - Order of the Bath (WWII) Major-General CBE Commander - Order of the British Empire (1935) Brigadier-General DSO and Bar WWI For Montay Lieutenant-Colonel DSO WWI Lieutenant-Colonel 1914/1915 Star British War Medal Victory Medal with MID Canadian Volunteer Service Medal 1939/1945 War Medal
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113 Major-General Sir James Howden MacBRIEN, KCB, CMG, DSO and Bar, CStJ Chief of the General Staff
Born: 30/06/1878 Port Perry, Ontario (or Myrtle, Ontario) Married: Mrs. J.H. MacBrien Died: 05/03/1938 Ottawa, Ontario
Honours
03/06/1935 KCB Commissioner RCMP 08/02/1919 CB Brigadier 26/01/1918 CMG T/BGen (Major Brevet LCol) 18/01/1919 DSO & Bar Temporary Brigadier GOC 12 CIB 17/07/1915 DSO Major Royal Canadian Dragoons 26/06/1934+ CStJ Major-General 15/12/1919 Chevalier Legion of Honour France Croix Croix de Guerre with Bronze Palmes France
Military and Police Service
30/07/1878 Private 34th Ontario Regiment 07/04/1900 Constable Northwest Mounted Police 1900 Lieutenant Royal Canadian Dragoons 02/1901 Constable South African Constabulary Boer War 1906 Lieutenant Royal Canadian Dragoons on return to Canada 08/1914 Brevet Captain General Staff Officer 3 09/1914 Brevet Captain Deputy A/Adjutant & Quartermaster General 1915 Brevet Captain Wounded at Ypres 22/06/15 Captain (Temp LCol) GSO 1st Cdn Division / DAA&QMG 12/09/15 T/Lieutenant-Colonel Assistant Quartermaster-General 17/01/16 T/Lieutenant-Colonel Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General 20/09/1916 Temp Brigadier GOC - 12th Infantry Brigade \LG 18/02/16 28/09/1918 Temp Brigadier Wounded at Drocourt-Queant Line 11/12/1918 Temp Brigadier GOC - 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade 01/08/1919 Major-General Chief of the General Staff 29/02/1920 Major-General End time as Chief of the General Staff 1923 Major-General First Chief of Defence Staff 1927 Major-General Retired from the Canadian Military 1927 Major-General Founder of the Canadian Aviation League 01/08/1931 Commissioner (8th) Royal Canadian Mounted Police 05/03/1938 Commissioner Died while Commissioner of the RCMP
114 Major-General Sir James Howden MacBRIEN, KCB, CMG, DSO and Bar, CStJ
Medals (On Display in the RCMP Museum in Regina)
KCB (Military) Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Bath CB (Military) Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Bath CMG Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George DSO & Bar Distinguished Service Order and Bar CStJ Commander of the Order of St. John Queen's South Africa Medal with 5 bars 1915 Star British War Medal Victory Medal with MID GV Jubilee GVI Coronation French Chevalier Legion of Honour French Croix de Guerre with bronze palme
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115 Major-General William Waring Primrose GIBSONE, CMG, DSO, OBE District Officer Commanding – Military District #4 (Montreal)
Born: 06/06/1872 Quebec City, Quebec Married: 18/12/1915 Marie Caroline Couillard Married: 2nd 1945 Alice Gregoire Died: 03/11/1957 Montreal, Quebec
Honours
06/07/1918 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Canadian Regiment 03/02/1917 DSO A/Lieutenant-Colonel Canadian Divisional HQ 05/07/1919 OBE Lieutenant-Colonel Nova Scotia Regiment 11/04/1919+ Croix Croix de Guerre France LCol RCR 5x MID Mentioned in Despatches 16/03/1919 MID Mentioned in Despatches LCol RCR & Nova Scotia R.
Military
1900 Lieutenant 8th Regiment 1903 Captain 8th Regiment 1905 Captain Royal Canadian Regiment 1909 Captain Deputy Assistant Adjutant General 1911 Captain DAA & QMG Military District #6 (Halifax) 1914 Brevet Major Royal Canadian Regiment 03/09/1915 T/Major Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General 3 CID 1916 Lieutenant-Colonel Assistant Adjutant & QMG 3rd Cdn Division 1918 Lieutenant-Colonel AA & QMG to end of war 3rd Cdn Division 22/12/1918 Lieutenant-Colonel End AA and QMG (from Nova Scotia Regiment) 1919 Brevet LCol D. of Org. and P.S. 1924 Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Officer Royal Canadian Regiment 1925 Lieutenant-Colonel Staff Officer – Directorate Engineer Svc 1925 Temp/Brigadier DOC – Military District #13 1928 Brigadier-General DOC – Military District # 6 (Halifax) 1931 Brigadier-General DOC – Military District # 4 (Montreal) 1936 Major-General Promoted Major-General and to retired List
116 Medals of Major-General William Waring Primrose GIBSONE, CMG, DSO, OBE: On Display Royal Canadian Regiment Museum London, Ontario
CMG Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George DSO Companion of the Distinguished Service Order OBE Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1st type – Military) 1914-15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal with MID King George V Silver Jubilee Medal King George VI coronation medal Croix de Guerre with star (France)
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PANET FAMILY
Father: Charles-Eugène Panet 1829-1898
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles-Eugène Panet 1829-1898 9th Regiment Les Voltigeurs de Quebec Lawyer Deputy Minister of Militia 1875 to 1898 Senator
Brothers:
Colonel Antoine Chartier de Lobinière Panet 1865-1926 Brigadier General Alphonse-Eugène Panet 1867-1950 Major General Henry Panet-Alexandre 1869-1959 Colonel Charles Louis Panet 1870-1955 Colonel Arthur Hubert Panet 1877-1944 Major-General Edouard de Bellefeuille Panet 1881-1977
“The Panet family has the reputation of being: "the most military family to Canada."
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118 CANADIANS
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SENIOR POSITIONS in WWII
BRIGADIER-GENERALS
MAJOR-GENERALS
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119 Major-General Charles Sumner Lund HERTZBERG, CB, MC, VD Chief Engineer – 1st Canadian Army WWII
Born: 12/06/1886 Toronto, Ontario Brother: MGen H.F.H. Hertzberg, Cdn Engineers Married: Jessie Alexander Died: 01/01/1944 New Delhi, India From Smallpox
Honours
05/06/1943 CB Major-General WWII 10/01/1917+ MC Lieutenant Canadian Engineers 29/06/1923+ Croix de Guerre Captain Slovak Republic Work with Siberian Force
Civilian
Pre WWI Consulting Engineer
Military
1902 Private 2nd Field Company, Canadian Engineers (CE) 1904 Lieutenant 2nd Field Company, Canadian Engineers (CE) 1916 Captain 7th Field Company, CE to France 1917 Captain Wounded severely at Vimy Ridge 06/1917 Captain Returned to Canada 09/1918 Captain 16th Field Company, CE, 2 i/c Siberian Force 03/1919 Major Promoted to Major
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1919-1939 Consulting Engineer Civilian
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11/1939 Lieutenant-Colonel CRE Royal Engineers (CRE) 1st Div Engineers 05/1940 Colonel Promoted while still CRE 1st Cdn Div Engineers 07/1940 Brigadier CRE British VII Corps 1941 Brigadier Chief Engineer 1st Canadian Corp 04/1942 Major-General Chief Engineer 1st Canadian Army 06/1943 Major-General Handed over to Brigadier Melville 10/1943 Major-General To Southeast Asia Command – construct airfields 01/1944 Major-General Died of Smallpox in New Delhi at age 58
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120 Major-General Edouard de Bellefeuille PANET, CMG, DSO, SBStJ, ED Director – Internment Operations
Born: 1881 Montreal, Quebec Married: 09/1914 Marguerite Fremont Died: 1977
Honours
26/01/1918 CMG Lieutenant-Colonel 13/02/1916 DSO Major 23/06/1933 SBStJ Serving Brother, Order of St. John BGen 12/04/1919 Chevalier Legion of Honour France 6x MID Mentioned-in-Depatches
Military
Cadet Royal Military College RMC #499
12/09/1915 Brevet LCol GSO 1 and AA & QMG at 4th Canadian Division 17/01/1916 Brevet LCol Assistant Quartermster-General LG 18/02/16 14/05/1916 Brevet LCol Adjutant General & QMG Staff 19/12/1916 Lieutenant-Colonel Temp Major (Acting LCol) to be LCol 09/04/1917 Lieutenant-Colonel Vimy Ridge 1926 Brigadier-General ADC to Viscount Willingdon and Earl Bessorough
1939 Brigadier-General Director of Internment Operations 1940 Brigadier-General District Director Military District #4
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121 Major-General Halfdan Fenton Harboe HERTZBERG, CB, CMG, MC, VD Engineer Brigade Commander – Canadian Engineers
Born: 03/09/1884 Toronto, Ontario Brother: MGen Charles Sumner Hertzberg, Cdn Engineers Brother: Lieutenant Olaf P. Hertzberg, MC Married: Dorothy Hope Son - KIA: 05/12/1944 Captain Peder Harbo Anderdon Hertzberg Daughters: 2 2 Daughters Died: 19/12/1959 Victoria, British Columbia
Honours
06/01/1945 CB Major-General WWII 06/07/1919 CMG Colonel WWI 26/01/1918 DSO Major Canadian Engineers 22/06/1915+ MC Lieutenant Canadian Engineers 22/06/1915+ MID 4x MID WWII
Civilian
Pre WWI Civil Engineer
Military
27/01/1905 Lieutenant 2nd Field Company Canadian Engineers 15/09/1905 Lieutenant 2nd Field Company Canadian Engineers CEF 02/1915 Temporary Captain Adjutant Canadian Engineers 03/1916 Temporary Major LG 05/06/1916+ Canadian Engineers 25/06/1917 Captain / T/Major Substantive Captain Canadian Engineers 01/01/1918 Temporary Major CRE 1st Canadian Division France 22/07/1918 Brevet Colonel Engineer Brigade Commander ‘A’ Battalion C.E. 09/1918 Temporary Colonel Engineer Brigade Commander ‘A’ Battalion C.E. 31/07/1919 Temporary Colonel CRCE Military District #6 01/04/1920 Major Remained in the Canadian Engineers Permanent 16/12/1920 Major SEO Military District #6 Halifax 06/07/1923 Major Assistant Director of Military Training 1925 Major Instructor Royal Military College 16/09/1919 Major GSO1 Royal Military College 01/10/1929 Lieutenant-Colonel General Staff Officer #2 Toronto District 01/01/1934 Colonel Military Staff 01/01/1934 Brigadier-General District Officer Commanding District 6 Halifax 04/01/1938 Brigadier-General District Officer Commanding District #3 15/08/1938 Brigadier-General Quartermaster-General 09/12/1938 Major-General Quartermaster-General 04/1940 Major-General Acting Adjutant-General 06/07/1940 Major-General Commandant – Royal Military College Kingston 01/09/1944 Major-General Retired 1945 Major-General Honorary Member of Royal Military College
SEO = Senior Engineering Officer
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122 Medals of Major-General Halfdan Fenton Harboe HERTZBERG, CB, CMG, MC, VD
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123 Brigadier-General Reginald John ORDE, CBE, CD, KC Judge Advocate General
Born: 15/05/1893 Toronto, Ontario Married: 1919 Dorothy Cook No Children Died: 03/06/1975 Ottawa, Ontario
Honours
06/01/1945 CBE Brigadier-General JAG 24/02/1945 Commander The Order of Orange Nassau Netherlands 04/01/1952 CStJ Commander, Order of St. John Brigadier-General 07/01/1955 KStJ Knight, Order of St. John Brigadier-General KC King’s Council 1950 CD Canadian Forces Decoration and two Clasps
Civilian
1913 B.A. Trinity College, University of Toronto LLD Osgoode Hall
Military
09/1914 Bombardier 2nd Battery, Canadian Field Artillery 01/1915 2nd Lieutenant 13th Brigade Royal Field Artillery Meerut Div. 03/1915 2nd Lieutenant To France RFA 05/1915 2nd Lieutenant Wounded at Festubert, Givenchy, Loos. 09/1915 Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery 12/1915 Lieutenant RFA in Mesopotamia for Tigris Relief Column 07/1916 Lieutenant Invalided in July 10/1916 Lieutenant Returned to Canada 1917 Captain R.S.A. Kingston; Instucting 04/1917 Captain 67th V. of T. Battery Overseas 10/1917 Captain Invalided Home 05/1918 Captain Judge Advocate General Staff 12/1918 Major Judge Advocate General Staff 1919 Major Assistant Judge Advocate General 1920 Lieutenant-Colonel Judge Advocate General (JAG) 1931 Lieutenant-Colonel Imperial Defence College 1950 Brigadier-General Retire as JAG (30 Years)
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124 MILITARY DISTRICTS 01 January 1900
No. 1 — Headquarters: London, Ontario 1st & 2nd Brigade Division No. 2 — Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario 3rd to 5th Brigade Division No. 3 — Headquarters: Kingston, Ontario 6th and 7th Brigade Divisions No. 4 — Headquarters: Ottawa, Ontario 8th Brigade Division No. 5 — Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec 1st & 2nd Brigade Division Quebec No. 6 — Headquarters: St. Johns, Quebec 3rd and 4th Brigade Divisions Quebec No. 7 — Headquarters: Quebec City, Quebec 5th and 5th Brigade Divisions Quebec No. 8 — Headquarters: Fredericton, New Brunswick 1st to 3rd Brigade Divisions New Brunswick No. 9 — Headquarters: Halifax, Nova Scotia 1st to 3rd Brigade Divisions Nova Scotia No. 10 — Headquarters: Winnipeg, Manitoba No Divisions yet No. 11 — Headquarters: Victoria, British Columbia No Divisions yet (all of British Columbia) No. 12 — Headquarters: Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island No. 1 King’s County (Regimental Division) No. 2 Prince County (Regimental Division) No. 3 Queen’s County (Regimental Division)
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1907
No. 10 — Headquarters: Winnipeg, Manitoba Now includes Saskatchewan & NW Ontario No. 13 – Headquarters: Calgary, Alberta Alberta and the MacKenzie Territory
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1911
No.12 – Headquarters: Regina, Saskatchewan No. 12 PEI designated as Saskatchewan
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1915
No. 6 — Headquarters: Halifax, Nova Scotia Now Includes New Brunswick and PEI No. 7 – New Brunswick (deleted)
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1939
No. 7 – Headquarters: St. John, New Brunswick No. 7 District reintroduced
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1946
Western Command Districts 11, 13, BC, Alberta, NW & Yukon Territories
Prairie Command Districts 10 & 12 (Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Western Ontario)
Central Command Districts 1 to 3 (Ontario except Western Ontario)
Quebec Command Districts 4 & 5 (Quebec)
Eastern Command Districts 6 & 7 (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI)
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