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22 September 1916 : Capt James Knowles Bertram

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James Bertram was born 6 December 1889 Dundas, Ontario, Canada. His parents were Scottish born Dr Thomas Bertram and New York born Jean (née Knowles). James was their only child.  James was a student in medicine at McGill University and the Royal Military College of Canada prior to his enlistment. He had also seen four years service in the Mili...


5 October 1916 Pte Nelson Pierce

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Nelson Pierce was born at Ailsa Craig, Ontario on  4 May 1896. He was the youngest of the nine children born between 1877 and 1896 to Moses (a beekeeper) and Salome Pierce.  Nelson became a beekeeper, like his father, and was working in this trade at the 1911 Census when he was 15.  He enlisted at London, Ontario on 1 November 1915. By October 1...


11 May 1915: Captain George Clarence Gliddon

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George Gliddon was born at Rodney, Ontario on 6 June 1888. His parents were John Gliddon and Mary née (Baker) A graduate of St Thomas College and the University of Toronto where he studied medicine between 1909 and 1914, he was about to enter practice as a physician in partnership with his brother when war broke out. Enlisting at Valcartier in...