Lethbridge Herald

2 Oct 1915

Over 100 Apply-to Join v

New Lethbridge Battery

on First Recruiting Day

Recruiting for the new 39th Battery

which opened on Monday morning, has

established a new record here, starting

off with a rush, and with men lined

up for half a block waiting their

turn before the doctor.

Yesterday 56 men were sworn on,

and 14 more had passed the medical

examination, but had not been sworn,

Over 30 more are waiting their turn

to be accepted.

From present indications it will be

jut a day or two more before the entire

battery of 140 men will be sighed

up and ready for training

Lieut. Stafford and Lieut. Fumer

are the recruiting officers, and they

were kept busy from early morning

till late at night.

Dudley Cocq, son of W. A. R. Cocq,

was the first man to be sworn on the

strength of-the new battery He was

congratulated by Lieut. Stafford the

next was Charlie McMillin. These

two are both Lethbridge boys, but

have been working in outside banks

for the past year or so.

Among others well-known are

William Stevens, city clerk

J S Wright, formerly of the Y.M.C.A.

Clarence Sherock formerly of the Herald

Sam Ervine formerly of Taber

R. Fairbrother of the Taylor mills

Fred Downer – Raised in Lethbridge

Harold Hamilton son of W.A. Hamilton – Raised in Lethbridge

Vernon Redmond – Raised in Lethbridge.

Clarence Sherlock is Lethbridge born

The following are those who were sworn in.

F Steedman – English

Thomas McIndoe grain buyer Scotch

John H. Harold Hamilton Student Canadian Vernon

A. Redmond postal clerk Canadian

Afred W. Smith clerk English

Sidney E. Collier teamster English

John McNeil teamster English

G. R. Norman Sandbach bank clerk Irish

Fred Kane mechanic Irish

Joseph Thomas Wellington painter English

Robert A Fairbrother Bookkeeper Scotch

Robert J. Chiswick Accountant English

S. Truman Janitor

F.W.R. Downer Clerk Canadian

Frederick Charles Williams clerk Canadian

John Howard McGinniss Woodworker Scotch

John Leslie O’Brien Snell bank clerk English

Templar Robert Kerr Sign writer Canadian

Ernest James Hooker clerk English

George Masson Letter carrier Scotch

John Ernest Sydal Book-keeper English

William Crombie Marnoch Builder – Scotch

Charles Ernest Sydal Book-keeper English

William Crombie Marnoch Builder Scotch

Alfred William Whitebread Porter English

James Kaines Civil engineer English

Neil McVicar Letter carrier scotch

John Rollo Wheelwright Scotch

Henry Baldry Letter Carrier English

Robert Ernest Baldry Letter Carrier English

Morris Horton Irvine Guard English

Arthur Seager Teamster English

Fred Steven Clerk Scotch

Alex Lothian Letter Carrier Scotch

Walter Fyfe Miner Scotch

Reginald Matthews Letter Carrier English

C. Bacon English

Howard James Holloway Farmer English

Septimus Logan Miner English

Albert William Cox Teamster English

Frank McGillan? Farmer English

Robert Johnes Tinsmith English

Robert Lothian Miner Scotch

Adam Robinson Miner English

Setimms Logan Miner English

Oscar Willette Gardener English

Norman Atherion? Clerk English

John Spinney Lombard Bank Clerk English

D.A.R. Cocq Bank Clerk English

C. Hyndman McMillan Accountant Canadian

Henry N. Bennett Bank Clerk English

The following recruits have passed the medical examinations successfully and have only to be sworn in, which will be sometime today.

Frank C. Werley Scotch

Robert Lindsay English

William James Blison Canadian

Clarence E. Sherlock Canadian

John Bushby Barkley Carpenter

Charles Sellens English

A.D. Thomas Shipman

James George Huggett English

Samuel Ervine

William Scott Scotch

L. Close Scotch

F.J. Copman English

Gordon Kennedy Watt Scotch

Extracted by E. Howard 2008-06-05

Regimental Numbers for most of above not all the below names will be related with the above article

Name	Rank	Rank	Regimental number(s)
APPLETON, CHARLES JAMES	13/03/1892		301851
ATHERTON, NORMAN	18/03/1888		301852
	18/03/1890		358
BACON, CLAUDE WATSON	17/09/1897	GNR	301853
BALDRY, ROBERT ERNEST	16/07/1894	GNR	301854
BENNETT, HENRY NORMAN	03/02/1890		301855
BERTRAND, HENRY ALEXANDER	05/01/1885		301819
BLANCHETTE, PHILIPPE LOUIS PRUDENT	20/10/1881	DVR	301818
BOUCHER, THOMAS MILLER	12/10/1896	SIG	301810
BRADSHAW, HENRY JOSEPH	16/05/1886	DVR	301823
BRIDGES, ERNEST ARTHUR	08/07/1880	GNR	301813
BRYAN, ALFRED SOTHERN	30/03/1890	DVR	301807
CAMERON, WILLIAM	01/12/1890		301804
CARTER, ARTHUR	03/02/1886	GNR	301800
CHAPUT, ALBERT	29/06/1893	DVR	301817
CHISWICK, ROBERT JOHN	04/03/1886	SGT	301856
CLARK, EDMUND MEADE	14/02/1894	GNR	301890
			304695
COCQ, DUDLEY ADOLPHUS ROOSMALE	14/07/1893		301857
COLLIER, SYDNEY LEWIS	01/07/1896	DVR	301858
COX, ALBERT WILLIAM	07/11/1889		301859
CRAWFORD, CHARLES WILLIAM	13/08/1889	GNR	301815
DAVIS, GEORGE	27/03/1894		301805
DEACON, JOHN GERALD	08/12/1889	GNR	301811
DEHAAS, GERALD WILLIAM	12/04/1883	DVR	301821
DOBSON, JAMES			301808
DOWNER, FREDERCIK WILLIAM RAYSON	18/01/1896	CPL	301860
			301866
EASTMAN, NATHAN	27/03/1894		301805
FAIRBROTHER, ROBERT A	09/12/1883	DVR	301861
GLADU, EMILIEN	09/05/1896	GNR	301824
HAIMES, JAMES	28/07/1883		301863
HAMILTON, JOHN HAROLD	21/04/1894	SGT	301864
HARTLEY, PERCY	28/01/1886	DVR	301865
HEARN, FRANK	22/04/1886		301820
HOLLOWAY, HOWARD JAMES	27/08/1885	DVR	301866
HOOKER, DANIEL CLARK	05/05/1889	SGT	301867
HOOKER, ERNEST JAMES	16/09/1894	DVR	301868
IRVINE, MORRIS HORTON	22/06/1878	SGT	301869
JOHNSON, EMIL AUGUST	29/11/1894		301801
JONES, ROBERT	02/09/1895	GNR	301870
KANE, FRED	18/07/1891		301871
KERR, TEMPLAR ROBERTON	07/11/1871		301872
LOGAN, SEPTIMUS	04/03/1877		301873
LOMBARD, JOHN SPINNEY	22/07/1893	GNR	301874
LOTHIAN, ALEXANDER	10/01/1884	SGT	301875
LOTHIAN, ROBERT	24/10/1888		301876
LOWE, HENRY	26/11/1872		301877
MACINDOE, THOMAS	23/03/1891		301881
MANSON, WILLIAM MCKENZIE	25/05/1890	GNR	301802
MASSON, GEORGE	13/02/1888	DVR	301879
MATTHEWS, REGINALD	26/06/1891	SGT	301880
MCGILLEN, FRANK	12/11/1887	DVR	301883
MCGINNISS, JOHN HOWARD	31/05/1894		301884
MCKIE, JOHN	24/04/1884		301885
MCMILLAN, CHARLES HYNDMAN	25/07/1892	CPL	301886
MCVICAR, NEIL	24/03/1893		301883
MILLS, HADDOW FELL	16/08/1896	SGT	301814
MILNES, HAROLD	10/12/1891		301822
NICOLSON, ROBERT DONALDSON	26/06/1883	GNR	301816
PARKINSON, RICHARD	24/12/1881		301806
REDMOND, VERNON ABBOTT	08/05/1895	SGT	301887
ROBINSON, ADAM	29/05/1895		301888
ROLLO, JOHN	10/01/1877		301889
SANDBACH, GEORGE ROBERT NORMAN	29/11/1894		301890
SAVAGE, RICHARD JOSEPH	21/04/1888		301891
SEAGER, ARTHUR	20/11/1887		301892
SISMEY, EDMUND	26/01/1882		301803
SMITH, ALFRED WELLS	20/05/1894	GNR	301893
SNELL, JOHN LESLIE OBRIEN			301894
STEEDMAN, FRANK	15/09/1879		301895
STEVEN, WILLIAM	08/02/1880		301896
STOWE, FREDERICK	13/06/1893		301897
SYDAL, CHARLES ERNEST	26/05/1873		301898
TERRIS, JOHN	02/07/1892		301899
THORNTON, ARTHUR	16/07/1889	GNR	301812
BACKUS, NORMAN JOHN	16/12/1894	CDT	301976
			424530
BANNERMAN, JOHN			301965
BARKLEY, JOHN BUSBY	27/09/1877		301907
BENSON, ARTHUR WILLIAM	27/08/1897		301909
BERRY, GEORGE HAROLD	30/03/1888		301978
BESTWICK, THOMAS	15/11/1884		301950
BILSON, WILLIAM JAMES		DVR	301910
BLUNT, GEORGE THORNTON	08/04/1876		301971
CARDWELL, GEORGE CUSTER	16/04/1892		301973
CARTER, JESSE	17/03/1881		301911
CHAPLIN, ARTHUR JOHN	29/03/1896		2015691
			301912
CHAPLIN, BASIL ERNEST	14/04/1897		301913
CHRISTIE, RAYMOND VALENTINE	26/05/1896		301977
CLOSE, LAWRENCE	15/09/1887		301951
			379
COLPMAN, FRANK JOSEPH	03/07/1893	CPL	301952
COOPER, RICHARD ALBERT	26/08/1897	GNR	301949
DAVIDSON, ADAM WILSON	10/07/1884	CPL	301995
DAVIDSON, CHARLES GORDON		GNR	301914
DAVIES, JOHN VINCENT JAMES			301985
DELL, CHARLES FREDERICK	11/07/1882		301996
DOE, SYDNEY	17/03/1892	BDR	301953
ECCLESTON, JOHN WILLIAM	29/10/1891	DVR	301915
ERVINE, SAMUEL	21/07/1879	GNR	301974
ETHIER, ERNEST	08/09/1884		301955
			79395
HACKETT, BERT	16/10/1880	GNR	301916
HAIMES, GEORGE	14/01/1881		301963
HARRIS, JOSEPH SIDNEY	10/02/1890	SS	301970
HARRISON, ERNEST	14/04/1885	SPR	13900
			301917
			552900
			736494
HARVEY, PHILIP JACK	14/05/1893		301918
			736097
HEMBLING, WALLACE LEWIS	15/03/1881		301966
HOLYOAK, FRANCIS GERALD	21/03/1890	SM	301982
HUGGETT, JAMES GEORGE	24/04/1888		301954
JACK, HENRY ROBERTSON	20/05/1888	GNR	301991
JAMES-DAVIES, JOHN VINCENT			301985
JOHNSTON, KENNETH PARKHILL	05/10/1889	GNR	301968
KEITH, SYLVANUS J	30/01/1897	GNR	301920
KEMPTON, ERNEST	03/06/1896	DVR	301919
KERR, JOHN	20/09/1891		301994
LANE, ALFRED	28/07/1876	CPL	301956
LARSON, JOHN	02/07/1878	GNR	301921
LEIGH, LEWIS	13/07/1882		301922
LINDSAY, JOHN	11/01/1895	DVR	301924
LINDSAY, ROBERT	31/07/1872	SDR	301923
MACAULAY, SAMUEL	01/09/1883		301975
			696599
MACKENZIE, ELMER JAMES	20/02/1890	SGT	301932
MARCHANT, HARRY	23/07/1877		301925
MARSH, JOHN	29/05/1890	GNR	301926
MASSON, ALEXANDER	29/06/1890	DVR	301928
MASSON, WILLIAM	15/02/1886	DVR	301927
MCDONALD, JOHN THOMAS	07/12/1890	GNR	301931
MCGUIRE, WILLIAM JOHN	19/12/1888	DVR	301980
MCLEAN, JOHN STEEL	11/11/1892	GNR	301933
MCMASTER, JAMES	12/07/1882		301957
MEERES, EDWARD WILLIAM	28/01/1896		301929
MELVIN, JAMES LOGAN	27/07/1881	GNR	301979
MILLER, HARRY WILLIAM	12/06/1896	GNR	301984
MORRIS, DAVID	24/12/1879	GNR	301967
MORRIS, THOMAS EARL	07/08/1893	GNR	301930
OSULLIVAN, DENNIS ERROL	09/08/1894		301958
PARKER, ERNEST GEORGE	20/12/1890		301972
PARKINSON, JACK	1880		301934
PATTERSON, DONALD W		LT	301968
PAUL, SAMUEL	25/07/1880	GNR	301935
PERRY, SAMUEL CHARLES	16/09/1883	DVR	301936
PETTIFOR, ERNEST ALFRED	09/12/1894		301981
PITTARD, EDWARD PERCY	03/11/1881		301937
RANNARD, FREDERICK GEORGE	10/10/1891	SIG	301997
REID, PHILLIP BARTON	28/12/1886		301989
SAGE, WILLIAM HENRY	27/02/1882		301938
SCOTT, WILLIAM	29/07/1871		301959
SELLENS, CHARLES	15/11/1872	GNR	301939
SHERLOCK, CLARENCE EDWARD	15/01/1895		301940
SHIPMAN, ALBERT DANIEL T	11/11/1893		301941
SHORT, WALTER	01/09/1896	GNR	301990
SIMISTER, EDMOND	04/07/1891		301986
SIMM, FREDERICK	26/03/1892		301998
SINCLAIR, WALTER	29/03/1891		301960
SKIDMORE, WILLIAM	26/09/1891		301942
SPENCER, GORDON	17/01/1888		301992
STEVENS, RICHARD	19/12/1877		301943
SUTHERLAND, GEORGE	05/08/1893	GNR	301944
TAYLOR, JOHN	16/09/1879		301961
THOMAS, DAVID GWILYM	06/09/1883		301993
TROMAN, SAMUEL	11/09/1888	GNR	301900
VANHORNE, CHARLES WEBSTER	07/02/1880	GNR	301962
VERE, WALTER			301946
VINE, RICHARD STEPHEN	01/09/1894		301901
WAKELEN, CHARLES HENRY	26/08/1880	GNR	301983
WATT, GORDON KENNEDY	18/04/1897		301947
WEBB, WALTER KENNEDY	08/05/1897		301999
WELLINGTON, JOSEPH THOMAS	25/09/1881		301902
WERLEY, FREDERICK CHARLES	29/12/1892	DVR	301948
WHITEHEAD, ALFRED WILLIAM	30/06/1882		301903
WILLETTS, OSCAR	03/10/1891		301904
WILLIAMS, FREDERICK CHARLES	10/12/1882		301905
WRIGHT, JOHN STENHOUSE	29/10/1888		301906