John Mansfield
Private Mansfield served with No.2 Construction Coy, Canadian Overseas Railway Construction Corps, attached to No. 5 Group Canadian Forestry
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THE BLACK BATTLION
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Charlie Some
Some people came so far only to have their hopes and dreams fade too suddenly. Charlie Some of No. 2 Construction Battalion was one...
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Charlie Kelly
"Playing Baseball before the King" - At any time, playing a sporting game with the King of England in the audience was a singular honour. Sh
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Seldon Thomas Parris
Seldon Thomas Parris was born October 9th, 1892 to parents Alexander Parris and Margaret Prevost. His father died when Seldon was a...
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Arthur Nelson Ware
Arthur Nelson Ware was born on 4 July 1897, in Millarville, Foothills No. 31, Alberta, Canada to parents John Ware and Mildred Jane...
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William Ware
Ware, William Henry FWW Regimental Number 931656 William Henry Ware and his twin sister Mildred were Sheep Creek Alberta in 1898....
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Hewburn Nathaniel Greenidge
Corporal Hewburn Nathaniel Greenidge was born on November 1, 1893, to James Daniel Greenidge and Ellen Beatrice (Hope) in Georgetown,...
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Joseph Roger Butler
Sergeant Joseph Roger Butler was born in Richmond, Virginia, USA on November 22, 1878. Butler served with the 9th Cavalry during the...
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Samuel Daniel Watts
Samuel Daniel Watts was born in Texas on May 25th, 1882 and immigrated to Canada in 1904. In 1907 he married his wife Margaret in...
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Walter Haley Modesty
Walter Haley Modesty was born in Platt City, Missouri, USA in the 1870s. He arrived in Canada in the early 1900s and settled in Junkins...
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Albert Carty
Albert Carty was born on October 5th, 1879, in St Martin, Dutch West Indies and migrated to New Brunswick in the early 1910s. At the...
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Samuel Reese
PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Reece, Samuel Date of birth: 1885-04-15 Place of birth: British Guyana British Guiana Next of kin: Annie...
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Howard Cranswick Desmond
Howard Cranswick Desmond was born in Guysborough NS, on March 7, 1897 to Cranswick and Lucretia Desmond. Lucretia gave birth to three...
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Robert Jamerson
Robert Jamerson was born in Tennessee Colony, Texas, in 1894. He and his family came to Canada as part of the Black Migration of 1910,...
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Michael Jackson
Date of Birth: April 2, 1874 at Tracadie, Antigonish County* Parents: John & Mary Jackson* Siblings: Brothers William & Frederick Marital...
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Cornelius "Neil" Wright
Service # 931603 Private Cornelius "Neil" Wright of Chatham Ontario. He enlisted in No 2 Construction on October 23rd, 1916. His...
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Joseph Alexander Parris
Joseph Alexander “Joe” Parris was born at Sand Point, near Mulgrave, NS, on March 20, 1899, to Charles and Annie Parris. On July 25,...
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William Andrew White
William Andrew White , (born 16 June 1874 in King and Queen Court House, VA; died 9 September 1936 in Halifax, NS). He was chaplain for...
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