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RSM (WO1) JJT McManus, CD, Cdn Guards

352 Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Died of wounds at Belmont, Orange Free State, South Africa, 12 November, 1899.

146 Captain Charles Albert Hensley, Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Died of wounds near Venters’ Spruit, South Africa on 20 January, 1900.

322 Lieutenant John Woodburn Osborne, Scottish Rifles. Killed in Action at Spion Kop, Natal, South Africa on 24 January, 1900.

99 Captain Thomas Wellington Chalmers, Canadian Mounted Rifles. Killed in Action near Belfast, Transvaal, South Africa on 2 November, 1900.

134 Captain John Haliburton Laurie, Royal Lancaster Regiment. Killed in action near Philoppolis, Orange Free State, South Africa on 12 April, 1901.

1025 Lieutenant Travers Williams-Taylor, 13th Hussars. Died at Shendi, Soudan on 10 May, 1926.

135 Captain Harry Sloggett, Royal Engineers. Died at Chatham, England on 22 October, 1899.

39 Captain Huntly Brodie Mackay, Royal Engineers. Died of fever at Mombasa, Kenya on 16 April, 1891 while serving as the Acting Administrator of the British East Africa Company.9

62 Captain William Henry Robinson, Royal Engineers. Killed in action on 14 March, 1892, while with conspicuous bravery, blowing in the gate of the stockaded village of Tambi near Sierra Leone.10

52 Captain William Grant Stairs, the Welsh Regiment. Died of fever on 9 June, 1890 at Chende on the Zambesi River while in command of the Katanga Expedition sent out by the King of the Belgians.

917 Lieutenant Francis Fyshe, 7th Battery, 2nd Brigade Canadian Field Artillery. Killed in action near Messines, Belgium on 27 November, 1915.

1716 Gentleman Cadet Thomas William Smart (Tommy). Died on 12 October, 1926 as a result of an accident on the football field.

Lieut-Col Joseph Bramlen Ridout, 90th LI Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). First Captain of Cadets and Adjutant 1876 – 1881.

Robert Carr Harris CE. First Professor of Civil Engineering and Architecture Royal Military College of Canada 1879- 1897 and first Professor of Engineering Queen’s University Kingston.

Amongst the pictures, the following are of note:

A member of the Old Brigade, 4 - Lt Col WM Davis (d. 1918) raised the 54th (Kootenay) Bn CEF and then the 2nd Cdn Pioneer Regt (from Central Canada) which he took to the UK. Injured before he could take the unit to France, he died in Ottawa from those injuries at the age of 58.

25 - Maj Gen W.T. Bridges, was the first Divisional Commander to die in theatre of injuries received in action in the Dardenelles Campaign as Commander of the ANZAC forces. Withdrawn from RMC at the request of his parents (and on the payment of $100), he moved with them to Australia, joined the Australian Artillery, and was the founder of Duntroon.

774 - Lt C.G.G Mackenzie, KIA with the Royal Scots Fusiliers was killed on 29 Oct 1914 (probably at First Ypres after the Retreat from Mons) and the first Canadian to die in action in the Great War. His classmate, 775 - Maj J.L. McLennan, MC, RASC, the last Canadian to be killed in action as a member of the British Military Mission in Southern Russia.

41 - Lt Alexis Helmer, RCA, the 'close friend' of Maj John McCrae whose death prompted McCrae to write "In Flanders Fileds' on 3 May, 1915; and

No. 23519 Cpl K.C. O'Quinn KIA in Afghanistan

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Presented to the Royal Military College of Canada

1867      1967

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WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM

DONATED BY THE CITIZENS OF
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Yeo Hall

"Born in Southampton, England, Yeo entered the British Navy, served throughout the Napoleonic Wars and won rapid promotion by his ability. In 1813, already a Commodore, he came to Canada to command British forces on the Great Lakes. Yeo successfully blockaded the American fleet in Sackett's Harbour for some months and subsequently commanded the naval forces at the capture of Oswego in 1814. Returning to England after the war he was posted to the West African Coast and died at sea while returning from that tour of duty."