Upper Canada College Cadets 1899

Upper Canada College Old Boys Who Served in The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada

A start on a list of Upper Canada College graduates who served in The Queen’s Own Rifles or one of the perpetuated battalions from the First World War. If you can identify additions to this list, please email them to museum@qormuseum.org

† indicates those whose deaths are attributed to their service.

  1. Anderson, Thomas Walter – WWI
  2. Armitage, William Robert Ramsay – WWI (3rd Bn)
  3. Armour, Eric Norman – WWI (95th Bn)
  4. Austin, James Percival – Pre WWI
  5. Aylesworth, Alan Featherston – WWI (95th Bn) †
  6. Baird, Alexander Watson – WWI (116th Bn) †
  7. Baird, Henry Nicol
  8. Baker, Alfred – Master
  9. Band, Charles Penruddocke William Kivas – WWI
  10. Barber, Herbert Campbell – WWI
  11. Bayley, George William Uniacke – WWI (3rd Bn)
  12. Bethune, Norman Sr. – 19th Century Assistant Surgeon
  13. Biscoe, Frederick – Fenian Raids
  14. Blatchford, Howard Charles – WWI
  15. Bolte, Felix Olivier – WWI (3rd Bn) †
  16. Boyd, Dalton Goring – WWI
  17. Brock, Henry T. – North West Field Force, WWI
  18. Broughall, Deric – WWI (3rd Bn) †
  19. Bruce, Charles Tupper – WWI †
  20. Burton, Frank Lindsay – WWI
  21. Burton, Gregory James – Reserve, Reg Force, Afghanistan
  22. Caldwell, Brendan – QOR Honorary Lieutenant Colonel
  23. Campbell, Lorne Gordon – WWI (198th Bn)
  24. Campbell, W.R. – WWII
  25. Caniff, James Foster
  26. Carney, Richard – QOR 1864-67
  27. Carr, Charles Clifton – WWI (3rd Bn) †
  28. Cartwright, John Robert – WWI, ADC to Malcolm Mercer
  29. Cassels, Richard Scourgall – North West Field Force
  30. Chambers, Graham Lee – WWI
  31. Chambers, G.D. – WWII
  32. Chipman, John Walter Finlayson – WWI (19th Bn)
  33. Clark, Ellis Wickham – WWI
  34. Clarkson, Roger
  35. Cowan, Charles G. (Post WWII Militia)
  36. Conybeare, Henry Bruce Attwood
  37. Cronyn, James Kerr – WWI (3rd Bn)
  38. Crowther, William Beverly – WWI (3rd Bn) †
  39. Curry, Walter Eyre – WWI (3rd Bn)  †
  40. Dean, William Ashton – WWI (95th Bn)
  41. Delamere, Joseph Martin – QOR Commanding Officer, Fenian Raids, North West Field Force
  42. Delamere, Thomas Dawson – Fenian Raids
  43. Dobson, Wilfred James, Assistant Master – WWI (3rd Bn)
  44. Draper, Francis Collier – Commanded UCC Company from 1866
  45. Dunkleman, Benjamin – WWII, Israel
  46. Dunlop, Edward Arunah – WWII (George Medal)
  47. Eddis, Francis Arthur – North West Field Force
  48. Elliot, Henry C. F. – WWII, QOR Regular Force Commanding Officer
  49. Ellis, Harold Hodgson – WWI
  50. Ellis, Mathew Langdon – WWI
  51. Fleming, Robert – WWII †
  52. Forlong, Herbert James – Fenian Raids?
  53. Forwood, Thomas Watt – WWI
  54. Fotheringham, George Taylor – Master, WWI
  55. Frankel, Roy Hecker – WWI
  56. Gates, William George – WWI (3rd Bn)
  57. George, Ruggles – WWI
  58. Gibson, Ralph B. – QOR Commanding Officer, WWI, WWII
  59. Gooderham, Norman Ross
  60. Gordon, James Neil – QOR Commanding Officer, WWII
  61. Grant, Oswald Wetherald – WWI (3rd Bn)
  62. Greene, Gerald Elliott Denbigh – WWI (3rd Bn)
  63. Grindlay, William Harold – WWI
  64. Gunsaulas, Paul Mitchell – WWI
  65. Gunther, Ernest Frederick – Battalion Commanding Officer, North West Field Force
  66. Gzowski, John Sobieski – WWI, WWII (Brother Roy died on the 1910 trip of typhoid)
  67. Hagarty, Dudley George – WWI (3rd Bn)
  68. Haight, Caniff Ernest – WWI (3rd Bn)
  69. Ham, Percy Dillon – WWI
  70. Hamilton, D.B. – WWII †
  71. Hamilton, Robert Hector – WWI †
  72. Harman, Hudson Murney – WWI
  73. Hargraft, Gordon Grant – WWI (83rd/3rd Bn)
  74. Hayes, Barry Bonnycastle – WWI (198th Bn)
  75. Hayter, Herbert Roche – WWI (QOR 1895-98)
  76. Haywood, Alfred Kimball – WWI (3rd Bn Medical Officer)
  77. Haywood, Leopold John – WWI (3rd Bn)
  78. Henderson, Stephen Lowth – WWI
  79. Henderson, Velyien Ewart – WWI (198th Bn)
  80. Hermant, Adam
  81. Howard, Vaughan Maclean – WWI (166th Bn)
  82. Hughes, Patrick Donohue – QOR 1877-?, Northwest Campaign
  83. Hunter, Saxon Howard – QOR/WWI (3rd Bn)
  84. Irwin, Charles Warren – WWI
  85. Jackson, John Denison – WWII †
  86. Jennings, John Robert Rogers – Militia 60s/70s
  87. Jones, Beverly
  88. Joy, Douglas Grahame – WWI
  89. Keefer, Norman Grant – WWI
  90. Keens, John Harvey – WWI
  91. Keith, David Lumsden – WWI
  92. Kingsford, William Rupert – WWI
  93. Kirkpatrick, Arthur James Ernest – QOR Commanding Officer, WWI POW
  94. Kirkpatrick, Alexander Douglas – WWI † (3rd Bn)
  95. Langtry, Ernest – North West Campaign
  96. Lawrence, Allan Russell – WWI
  97. Lea, E.R. – WWII
  98. Lennox, Oswald Elmer – WWI
  99. Leslie, George
  100. Lindsey, Charles Bethune – WWI, WWII
  101. Lithgow, Charles H. – QOR Regular Force Commanding Officer
  102. Lyall, Richard Lawton – WWI † (3rd Bn)
  103. MacDonald, George Gordon – WWI
  104. MacDonald, John Milligan – WWI (83rd Bn)
  105. Macdonell, Ian McLean – QOR Commanding Officer, WWI
  106. Machell, Herbert Eric – WWI
  107. Machell, Maurice Irving – WWI †
  108. MacKenzie, George Lawrence Bisset – WWI † (3rd Bn)
  109. Marshall, Kenric, Countze – Fenian Raids
  110. Martin, F.L.J. – WWII
  111. Mason, Percival Lawrence – QOR Battalion Commanding Officer, WWI
  112. Massey, John Melville – WWI (95th Bn)
  113. Matthews, Llewellyn
  114. McCausland, Harold Laurence – WWI
  115. McHenry, Charles Frederick – WWI † (166th Bn)
  116. McClelland, Rev. Thomas James – Fenian Raids (No. 7 Coy)
  117. McDonell, James Arthur Edward – WWI (95th Bn)
  118. McNeillie, George – Late 20th Century
  119. Medland, Richard Dillon – WWII, Korea
  120. Meredith, John Redmond Walsingham – WWI † (95th Bn)
  121. Mills, John Irvin – WWII, CO 3rd Bn QOR
  122. Mitchell, Herbert Eric – WWI
  123. Mitchell, William Reginald – WWI
  124. Morrison, Bertrand Clifford – WWI (Engineers)
  125. Morrison, Leonard Septimus – WWI (3rd Bn)
  126. Morrow, George Graham – WWII
  127. Moss, Charles Alexander – WWI (3rd Bn) †
  128. Mowatt, George Greig – WWI (19th Bn) †
  129. Oates, Edward Frederick – Fenian Raids (No.4 Coy 1863-67)
  130. O’Donovan, Frederick L. – WWI (83rd Bn)
  131. Orr, George Meredith – WWI
  132. Otter, William Dillon – Fenian Raids, Northwest Field Force, South Africa, WWI
  133. Owen, David D. – WWII †
  134. Paterson, John Andrew – Head Boy, Master, Fenian Raids
  135. Pellatt, Sir Henry Mill – QOR Commanding Officer
  136. Pellatt, Reginald QOR Commanding Officer, WWI
  137. Pepler, Seth Bernard – WWI
  138. Polson, Norman Smith – WWI
  139. Proctor, James Ernest – WWI (93rd/3rd Bn)
  140. Redden, Frederick Adam Corrie – Northwest Campaign
  141. Reid, Alban Douglas – WWI (3rd Bn)
  142. Reid, Eric Alastair – WWI (3rd Bn)
  143. Richardson Jr, William Augustus – WWI (CFA)
  144. Richardson Sr, William Augustus – Northwest Campaign, WWI
  145. Riddle, J.A. – WWII
  146. Rogers, Joseph Bartlett  – WWI (3rd Bn Commanding Officer)
  147. Ryerson, George Egerton – WWI †
  148. Ryerson, John Egerton – WWI † (58th Bn)
  149. Ryerson, Yoris Sterling
  150. Rykert, Arthur Frederick – WWI
  151. Sanson, Robert David – WWI
  152. Sawyer, R.W. – WWII †
  153. Sheppard, Edward “Ned” Culver – 1910 Trip, WWI (RFC)
  154. Sheppard, Harold Saxton – WWI
  155. Shotbolt, Herbert Thomas – WWI (198th Bn)
  156. Sime, Adam Watson – WWI
  157. Sims, Henry Bueth – WWI
  158. Small, Philip Sidney – WWI
  159. Smith, Arthur Gordon – Northwest Campaign
  160. Smith, Frank Homer – WWI
  161. Smith, George Augustus – WWI (3rd Bn)
  162. Smith, Harry Eden – WWI
  163. Smith, Hugh Fraser – WWI (83rd Bn)
  164. Staunton, T.A. – WWII
  165. Stewart, Joseph Francis – WWI
  166. Stewart, W.D. – WWII †
  167. Temple, Claude Castelmaine (Militia, 2 CMR) †
  168. Thompson, Alfred Burke – Northwest Campaign
  169. Thompson, Boyce  – Major 20yrs QOR
  170. Thompson, Cyril Monsarrat – WWI (3rd Bn) †
  171. Trees, Alexander George – WWI (198th Bn) †
  172. Trees, Christopher Frank – WWI (198th Bn/2CMR) †
  173. Turnbull, N.J. – WWII
  174. Turquand, Aubrey de Vere Arnold – WWI (3rd Bn) †
  175. Vandersmissen, William Henry – Fenian Raids (wounded)
  176. Vokes, Arthur Lumby – WWI
  177. Waldie, Ian S. – WWII
  178. Walker, Roselyn Hugh – QOR/WWI
  179. Welch, E.A. – WWII
  180. Welch, Donald Stephen – WWII
  181. Westwood. Harry Neville – WWI (198th Bn)
  182. Whealy, Arthur Carrick – Cold War
  183. Williams, Arthur John Langtry – WWI (198th Bn)
  184. Willison, William Taylor – WWI † (5th CMR)
  185. Woods, John Robinson – WWI (35th Bn>4CMR) †
  186. Wright, Adrian Marsh – WWI (95th Bn)
  187. Wright, Charles Seymour – WWI
  188. Wyatt, Henry F.  – 1880s/90s
  189. Zeidler, Robert – QOR Commanding Officer

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