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Cpl Darren Kowlessar, CD
Oct 26, 2018
William Dwight Sharpe and the British Naval hospital in Belgrade
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 15 in Brampton is the Major William Dwight Sharpe Branch, and there’s a Major Wm Sharpe Drive in the city....
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Cpl Darren Kowlessar, CD
Apr 1, 2018
Percy Chambers, soldier and pilot
Private Chambers in No. 7 Platoon (made up of men from the 36th Peel Regiment), 4th Battalion Brock to Currie, 345. When Percy Chambers...
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Cpl Darren Kowlessar, CD
Sep 10, 2017
Captain Frank Ott, MC
Franklin Walter Ott, MC (1893-1918) Frank Ott was born in Brantford, son of Charles and Emma Ott. His father was a lieutenant in the...
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Cpl Darren Kowlessar, CD
Sep 8, 2017
Lieutenant-Colonel B.M. Green, 164th Battalion CEF
In the summer of 1917, the 164th Battalion was in Witley, and the CO, Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Domville, had to give up command for...
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Cpl Darren Kowlessar, CD
Apr 9, 2017
Casualties of the Battle of Vimy Ridge
Soldiers from Battalions perpetuated by the Lorne Scots who died during the attack on Vimy Ridge, April 1917 Robert Battla; born in...
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Cpl Darren Kowlessar, CD
Apr 14, 2016
The driver and the general
When the first world war broke out, the volunteers from the Halton Rifles concentrated at the Georgetown armoury, before heading out by...
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Cpl Darren Kowlessar, CD
Feb 25, 2016
Henry Shepard, MBE
During black history month, there has been quite a bit of attention paid to No. 2 Construction Battalion from Nova Scotia during the...
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Cpl Darren Kowlessar, CD
Feb 21, 2016
Oakville soldiers in the 4th: George Busby
In 1862 George and Jane Busby, from Ashely in Northamptonshire, sailed for Canada with their six children. Jane died on the voyage, but...
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Cpl Darren Kowlessar, CD
Feb 19, 2016
Oakville soldiers in the 164th: James Gann
James Gann (1882-1941) was born in Winnipeg. He was a railroad worker in Oakville when he was attested in the 164th Battalion, 17...
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Cpl Darren Kowlessar, CD
Feb 16, 2016
Oakville soldiers in the 164th: William Crawley
William Asheton Crawley William Asheton Crawley (1897-1917) was born in Laughton, Essex. When he was 14, he became one of the first...
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Cpl Darren Kowlessar, CD
Feb 15, 2016
Oakville soldiers in the 164th: Bremner Green
Bremner Green (probably) From the photograph of the Oakville contingent of the 164th. Charles Bremner Green (1897-1941) was nineteen, and...
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Cpl Darren Kowlessar, CD
Feb 9, 2016
Lennard Bertram
There’s a street in Brampton called Colonel Bertram Road. It’s one street east of Hurontario Street, between Conservation Drive and...
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