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Lieutenant Colonel J W H McKinery DSO. Unit: 66th Battalion,(Edmonton Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force.
http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/426/30...at=photographs
I have him as a Major with the P.P.C.L.I. in the first Canadian contingent to the UK.
http://brantford.library.on.ca/files...contingent.pdf

© IWM (HU 114004)
Lieutenant Colonel H E Boak DSO. Unit: 2nd Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/570/55...at=photographs
I have him as Captain/Adjutant to the RCHA,in the first Canadian contingent to the UK.
http://brantford.library.on.ca/files...contingent.pdf

© IWM (HU 126794)
Lieutenant Colonel J A Sponagle. Unit: Canadian Army Medical Corps..
http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/439/44...at=photographs
http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.c...l.asp?ID=95705


© IWM (HU 118946)
Lieutenant Colonel C P Templeton DSO. Unit: Canadian Army Medical Corps.
http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/441/28...at=photographs
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/templeton_cp.shtml
I have him with the 3rd Fd.Ambulancee in the first Canadian contingent to the UK.
http://brantford.library.on.ca/files...contingent.pdf


© IWM (HU 126555)
Colonel C A Smart CMG. Unit: 1st Quebec Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/438/53...at=photographs
CO,2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Brigade...1914.
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/smart...allan_16E.html
https://books.google.ca/books?id=rSb...0smart&f=false

© IWM (HU 127368)
Colonel G V White CBE. Unit: Director of Timber Operations in Great Britain,Canadian Forestry Corps.
http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/446/78...at=photographs
https://archive.org/stream/canadianf...duoft_djvu.txt

© IWM (HU 125490)
Lieutenant Colonel C W Vipond. Unit: Canadian Army Medical Corps..
http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/445/13...at=photographs
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/fra/decouvr...2f648720a.gif&

© IWM (HU 119212)
Lieutenant Colonel R I Towers. Unit: 70th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/442/27...at=photographs

The battalion was authorized on 15 August 1915 and recruited in the Ontario counties of Essex, Kent, Lambton and Middlesex. The 70th Battalion embarked for Britain on 25 April 1916, where it provided reinforcements to the Canadian Corps in the field until 7 July 1916, when its personnel were absorbed the 39th Battalion, CEF.
The 70th Battalion, CEF, had one Officer Commanding, Lt.-Col. R.I. Towers, 25 April 1916 to 6 July 1916.
The 70th Battalion was awarded the battle honour THE GREAT WAR 1916.

http://thesarniajournal.ca/first-wor...-sarnias-best/


© IWM (HU 127781)
Lieutenant Colonel C H Rogers. Unit:2nd Battalion, (Central Ontario Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force.
http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/495/58...at=photographs
© IWM (HU 127780)
http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/466/39...at=photographs
http://greatwaralbum.ca/Great-War-Al...Charles-Rogers
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