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. Geary, George Reginald – WWI (35th >58th Bn)
  58. George, Ruggles – WWI
  59. Gibson, Ralph B. – QOR Commanding Officer, WWI, WWII
  60. Gooderham, Norman Ross
  61. Gordon, James Neil – QOR Commanding Officer, WWII
  62. Grant, Oswald Wetherald – WWI (3rd Bn)
  63. Greene, Gerald Elliott Denbigh – WWI (3rd Bn)
  64. Grindlay, William Harold – WWI
  65. Gunsaulas, Paul Mitchell – WWI
  66. Gunther, Ernest Frederick – Battalion Commanding Officer, North West Field Force
  67. Gzowski, John Sobieski – WWI, WWII (Brother Roy died on the 1910 trip of typhoid)
  68. Hagarty, Dudley George – WWI (3rd Bn)
  69. Haight, Caniff Ernest – WWI (3rd Bn)
  70. Ham, Percy Dillon – WWI
  71. Hamilton, D.B. – WWII †
  72. Hamilton, Robert Hector – WWI †
  73. Harman, Hudson Murney – WWI
  74. Hargraft, Gordon Grant – WWI (83rd/3rd Bn)
  75. Hayes, Barry Bonnycastle – WWI (198th Bn)
  76. Hayter, Herbert Roche – WWI (QOR 1895-98)
  77. Haywood, Alfred Kimball – WWI (3rd Bn Medical Officer)
  78. Haywood, Leopold John – WWI (3rd Bn)
  79. Henderson, Stephen Lowth – WWI
  80. Henderson, Velyien Ewart – WWI (198th Bn)
  81. Hermant, Adam
  82. Howard, Vaughan Maclean – WWI (166th Bn)
  83. Hughes, Patrick Donohue – QOR 1877-?, Northwest Campaign
  84. Hunter, Saxon Howard – QOR/WWI (3rd Bn)
  85. Irwin, Charles Warren – WWI
  86. Jackson, John Denison – WWII †
  87. Jennings, John Robert Rogers – Militia 60s/70s
  88. Jones, Beverly
  89. Joy, Douglas Grahame – WWI
  90. Keefer, Norman Grant – WWI
  91. Keens, John Harvey – WWI
  92. Keith, David Lumsden – WWI
  93. Kingsford, William Rupert – WWI
  94. Kirkpatrick, Arthur James Ernest – QOR Commanding Officer, WWI POW
  95. Kirkpatrick, Alexander Douglas – WWI † (3rd Bn)
  96. Langtry, Ernest – North West Campaign
  97. Lawrence, Allan Russell – WWI
  98. Lea, E.R. – WWII
  99. Lennox, Oswald Elmer – WWI
  100. Leslie, George
  101. Lindsey, Charles Bethune – WWI, WWII
  102. Lithgow, Charles H. – QOR Regular Force Commanding Officer
  103. Lyall, Richard Lawton – WWI † (3rd Bn)
  104. MacDonald, George Gordon – WWI
  105. MacDonald, John Milligan – WWI (83rd Bn)
  106. Macdonell, Ian McLean – QOR Commanding Officer, WWI
  107. Machell, Herbert Eric – WWI
  108. Machell, Maurice Irving – WWI †
  109. MacKenzie, George Lawrence Bisset – WWI † (3rd Bn)
  110. Marshall, Kenric, Countze – Fenian Raids
  111. Martin, F.L.J. – WWII
  112. Mason, Percival Lawrence – QOR Battalion Commanding Officer, WWI
  113. Massey, John Melville – WWI (95th Bn)
  114. Matthews, Llewellyn
  115. McCausland, Harold Laurence – WWI
  116. McHenry, Charles Frederick – WWI † (166th Bn)
  117. McClelland, Rev. Thomas James – Fenian Raids (No. 7 Coy)
  118. McDonell, James Arthur Edward – WWI (95th Bn)
  119. McNeillie, George – Late 20th Century
  120. Medland, Richard Dillon – WWII, Korea
  121. Meredith, John Redmond Walsingham – WWI † (95th Bn)
  122. Mills, John Irvin – WWII, CO 3rd Bn QOR
  123. Mitchell, Herbert Eric – WWI
  124. Mitchell, William Reginald – WWI
  125. Morrison, Bertrand Clifford – WWI (Engineers)
  126. Morrison, Leonard Septimus – WWI (3rd Bn)
  127. Morrow, George Graham – WWII
  128. Moss, Charles Alexander – WWI (3rd Bn) †
  129. Mowatt, George Greig – WWI (19th Bn) †
  130. Oates, Edward Frederick – Fenian Raids (No.4 Coy 1863-67)
  131. O’Donovan, Frederick L. – WWI (83rd Bn)
  132. Orr, George Meredith – WWI
  133. Otter, William Dillon – Fenian Raids, Northwest Field Force, South Africa, WWI
  134. Owen, David D. – WWII †
  135. Paterson, John Andrew – Head Boy, Master, Fenian Raids
  136. Pellatt, Sir Henry Mill – QOR Commanding Officer
  137. Pellatt, Reginald QOR Commanding Officer, WWI
  138. Pepler, Seth Bernard – WWI
  139. Polson, Norman Smith – WWI
  140. Proctor, James Ernest – WWI (93rd/3rd Bn)
  141. Redden, Frederick Adam Corrie – Northwest Campaign
  142. Reid, Alban Douglas – WWI (3rd Bn)
  143. Reid, Eric Alastair – WWI (3rd Bn)
  144. Richardson Jr, William Augustus – WWI (CFA)
  145. Richardson Sr, William Augustus – Northwest Campaign, WWI
  146. Riddle, J.A. – WWII
  147. Rogers, Joseph Bartlett  – WWI (3rd Bn Commanding Officer)
  148. Ryerson, George Egerton – WWI †
  149. Ryerson, John Egerton – WWI † (58th Bn)
  150. Ryerson, Yoris Sterling
  151. Rykert, Arthur Frederick – WWI
  152. Sanson, Robert David – WWI
  153. Sawyer, R.W. – WWII †
  154. Sheppard, Edward “Ned” Culver – 1910 Trip, WWI (RFC)
  155. Sheppard, Harold Saxton – WWI
  156. Shotbolt, Herbert Thomas – WWI (198th Bn)
  157. Sime, Adam Watson – WWI
  158. Sims, Henry Bueth – WWI
  159. Small, Philip Sidney – WWI
  160. Smith, Arthur Gordon – Northwest Campaign
  161. Smith, Frank Homer – WWI
  162. Smith, George Augustus – WWI (3rd Bn)
  163. Smith, Harry Eden – WWI
  164. Smith, Hugh Fraser – WWI (83rd Bn)
  165. Staunton, T.A. – WWII
  166. Stewart, Joseph Francis – WWI
  167. Stewart, W.D. – WWII †
  168. Temple, Claude Castelmaine (Militia, 2 CMR) †
  169. Thompson, Alfred Burke – Northwest Campaign
  170. Thompson, Boyce  – Major 20yrs QOR
  171. Thompson, Cyril Monsarrat – WWI (3rd Bn) †
  172. Trees, Alexander George – WWI (198th Bn) †
  173. Trees, Christopher Frank – WWI (198th Bn/2CMR) †
  174. Turnbull, N.J. – WWII
  175. Turquand, Aubrey de Vere Arnold – WWI (3rd Bn) †
  176. Vandersmissen, William Henry – Fenian Raids (wounded)
  177. Vokes, Arthur Lumby – WWI
  178. Waldie, Ian S. – WWII
  179. Walker, Roselyn Hugh – QOR/WWI
  180. Welch, E.A. – WWII
  181. Welch, Donald Stephen – WWII
  182. Westwood. Harry Neville – WWI (198th Bn)
  183. Whealy, Arthur Carrick – Cold War
  184. Williams, Arthur John Langtry – WWI (198th Bn)
  185. Willison, William Taylor – WWI † (5th CMR)
  186. Woods, John Robinson – WWI (35th Bn>4CMR) †
  187. Wright, Adrian Marsh – WWI (95th Bn)
  188. Wright, Charles Seymour – WWI
  189. Wyatt, Henry F.  – 1880s/90s
  190. Zeidler, Robert – QOR Commanding Officer

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