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Privates Rogers and Osgoode Tablet

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Municipality/Province: Ottawa, ON

Memorial number: 35059-090

Type: Tablet - blue granite, plaque - brass

Address: 2 Queen Elizabeth Drive

Location: Governor General's Foot Guards Regimental Museum, Cartier Square Drill Hall

GPS coordinates: Lat: 45.4219381   Long: -75.6886011

Submitted by: Clive Law. Victoria Edwards.

Photo credit: Clive Law

The Privates Rogers and Osgoode Tablet was erected by the No. 1 Company Governor Generals Foot Guards and the Ladies Soldiers Aid Association of Ottawa and unveiled on May 2, 1887. 

In 1885, the Civil Service Rifle Regiment sent a company to Northwest Canada to help quell the Northwest Rebellion. All members of the company were selected because they were expert shots and as a result they were known at “The Sharpshooters”. They formed part of Colonel Otter’s column that relieved the town of Battleford on April 24. Members of the Regiment came under fire on May 2 for the first time at the Battle of Cut Knife Hill. It was here that the Regiment suffered its first fatalities - Privates William Osgoode and John Rogers.


Inscription found on memorial

ERECTED TO THE MEMORY
OF
PRIVATES
J. ROGERS
AND
Wm. B. OSGOOD
WHO FELL IN ACTION AT
CUT KNIFE HILL
MAY 2 1885

This Tablet was placed here by No. 1 Company
Governor Generals Foot Guards assisted by the
Ladies Soldiers Aid Association of this City.

Ottawa 2 may 1887

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