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1st Regiment Canadian Grenadier Guards WWI

Oldest Volunteer Regiment The First Regiment, Canadian Grenadier Guards have the honour of being the oldest volunteer Regiment in the British Empire. Being British but not a Scot, my great uncle, Herbert Shill, chose the 1st Grenadier Guards to enlist with on September 3rd of 1914. Lieut.-Col. Carson Reorganizes Regiment In 1911, Lieutenant-Colonel John Wallace […]

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World War I and Montreal

WWI / Deborah Waddell

Montreal in 1914 The British immigrants living in Montreal at the outbreak of World War 1 were largely staunch supporters of the British Empire as were other British-born Canadians elsewhere in the Dominion of Canada. These British-born immigrants would be quick to volunteer to fight when war was declared in August, 1914. Those who couldn’t

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