Riflemen of the Queen’s Own who fought at the Battle of Ridgeway or were on active service during the Fenian Raid of 1866

Canada General Service Medal (1866, 1870)

In the following list, Riflemen who were awarded the Canada General Service Medal for the Fenian Raids 1866 have a number and a link to the Library and Archives Canada database relating to the application documents submitted by the individual regiments. Those who didn’t apply for the medal, including those who died before the government decided to award them 33 years later in 1899, did not receive the medal.

Those Riflemen who have biographical pages of their own are highlighted in RED.

The last two columns list the Company they belonged to, (including Upper Canada College Cadets who were assigned guard duties in Toronto), if they were killed in action, died of wounds, died of illness attributable to service, (sometimes over a year later), were wounded in action and other relevant information.

	Surname	Given Name(s)	Rank	Coy	Notes
13859	ADAM	Graeme Mercer	Captain	6
13866	ADAMS	Andrew	Private
13924	AKERS	John	Private
	ALDERSON	Christopher	Private	7	Killed in action
14139	ANDREWS	Joseph W.	Private
14161	ANLEY	Thomas	Private
14261	ARMSTRONG	William	Private	UCC
14265	ARMSTRONG	William John	Private
14280	ARNOLDI	Fulford	Private	UCC
14297	ARTHURS	William	Bugler
	ARTHURS	William	Lieutenant	4
14356	ATKINSON	William Henry	Private	7
14425	BACON	William Nicholas	Staff Sergt	6
14441	BAILEY	James	Private
14443	BAILEY	John	Sergt
14447	BAILEY	Richard Rausley	Bandsman
14449	BAILEY	Samuel E.	Private
14468	BAIN	Robert	Color Sergt	10
14533	BALDWIN	Robert Russell	Sergt
14618	BARKER	Peter McGill	Private	9
14727	BARTLETT	William	Private
14756	BASTEDO	David Henry	Private
14757	BASTEDO	John	Private
14793	BAXTER	James B.	Private
14851	BEATTIE	James W.	Private
	BEAVAN	James H	Lieutenant	3
14930	BEDLEY	James	Private
14987	BELL	Anthony	Private
	BELL	Charles F	Private	5	Wounded
15074	BENNETT	James	Ensign	2
15199	BICKERSTAFF	Robert C.	Corpl	3
15298	BLACK	Andrew	Private
15316	BLACK	Thomas	Private	1
15362	BLAIR	William	Private
15427	BLYTH	William George	Sergt
15489	BONSTEAD	James R.	Captain
15548	BOSWELL	Francis E.	Private
15555	BOTSFORD	Charles Smith	Private
	BOUSTEAD	James R.	Captain	3	Wounded
15641	BOWES	John George	Private	4
15668	BOYCE	George	Color Sergt
15681	BOYD	James	Private
15805	BRANTON	Henry	Private
15844	BRENT	Joseph Henry	Private
15971	BROWN	Alexander	QM Sergt
15999	BROWN	George	Private
	BROWN	John	Captain	1
16110	BROWNE	William Albert	Hospital Sergt
16112	BROWNING	Joseph	Private
27364	BRYCE	George	Color Sergt	9
16163	BRYDON	Robert	Corpl	10
16164	BRYDON	Stephen Fraser	Private	10
16212	BULL	James E.	Sergt
16253	BURGESS	Thomas Joseph W.	Private
16295	BURNS	Alexander	Color Sergt
16307	BURNS	William	Private
16351	BUSTEED	John Henry	Private
16352	BUSTEED	William Francis	Color Sergt
16365	BUTLER	James P.	Sergt
16378	BUTT	Richard Henry	Private
16379	BUTT	Samuel James	Private
16569	CAMPBELL	John	Sergt	6
16613	CAMPBELL	William Cooper	Lieutenant	6	Wounded
16645	CAPREAL	James Lonsdale	L/Corpl
16681	CARNEY	Richard	L/Corpl
16784	CASSELS	W. G. P.	Private
16857	CHAFEE	Alexander B.	Private	UCC
16990	CHERRIMAN	J. B.	Lieutenant
17046	CHRISTIE	William	Private	10
17173	CLARKE	Thomas Fieldhouse	Private
17180	CLARKE	William Henry	Private
17184	CLARKSON	Thomas	Private	10
17191	CLAXTON	Thomas	Corpl
17196	CLAYTON	Richard	Private	4
17200	CLEARY	Thompson M.	Sergt
17359	COLLETT	John	Private
	CONNER	Jno	Private		Died of illness
17445	CONSTABLE	James	Private
17452	COO	William Horseman	L/Corpl
17473	COOK	Joseph Henry	Corpl
17481	COOK	William Arthur	Private
17525	COOPER	John Charles	Bandsman
17538	COOPER	William Henry	Private
17540	COPE	Edward B.	Sergt
	COPP	Edward	Private	5	Wounded
17603	COSTELLO	Michael	Private
17741	COX	Robert	Private
17803	CRAWFORD	Edward Patrick	Private	9
17843	CRICKMORE	Snelling R.	Private	UCC
17849	CROCKER	Sydney Charles R.	Private
17857	CROMBIE	David Bradshaw	Private
17917	CROZIER	James	Private
18022	CURRIG	Charles Dobyn	Private
18039	CURTIS	Joshua Washington	Private	3
18058	CUTTELL	John Bywater	Private
18066	DACK	Thomas B. N.	Asst Surgeon
18099	DALLIMARE	George A.	Private
	DAVIDS	Joseph	Lieutenant	1
18214	DAVIDSON	William	Private
	DAVIS	John H	Ensign	4
18251	DAVIS	Robert	Private
18270	DAVISON	Samuel	Private
18271	DAVISON	William Fletcher	Color Sergt
	DEFRIES	Mark B	L/Corporal	3	Killed in action
	DELAMERE	Joseph Martin	Private
18365	DELAMERE	Thomas Dawson	Corporal
18379	DELMAGE	Anthony A.	Private
18414	DENISON	Alfred Ernest	Private	8
18415	DENISON	Clarence Alfred K	Private	UCC
18456	DEROCHE	Hammel Madden	Private	9
18547	DEWHURST	Thomas	Private
18573	DICKSON	Alexander Gillespie	Private
18621	DIXON	Frederick Eldon	Captain	2
18636	DIXON	Thomas	Private	5
18661	DODD	William	Corpl
18704	DONNELLY	Godfrey	Private
18743	DOUGLAS	John	Captain	4
18750	DOUGLAS	William	Private
18973	DUNN	Henry Knight	Private
18985	DUNN	Robert	Private	3
19121	EDWARDS	John	Captain	5
19213	ELLIS	Alfred Henry	Private
19230	ELLIS	Richard Yates	Ensign
19234	ELLIS	William Hodgson	L/Corpl
19296	ERSKINE	David Morrison	Private	2
19297	ERSKINE	John	L/Corpl
19336	EVANS	Lewis Hamilton	Corpl
19346	EVANS	William Barnard	L/Corpl
19347	EVANS	William H. J.	Color Sergt
19388	FAHEY	William	Ensign	1	Wounded
19414	FAREWELL	John Edwin	Private
19428	FARMER	Robert John	Private
19702	FLETCHER	John	Private
19706	FLETCHER	Joseph	Sergt	8
19770	FORBES	Pryce Alexander	Private
19809	FORMAN	George	Private
	FORSYTH	Colin	Private	10	Wounded
19826	FORSYTH	James	Sergt	7
19864	FOSTER	Charles Colley	Private
19869	FOSTER	James	Private
19887	FOSTER	William Thomas	Sergt	7	Wounded
19894	FOTHERINGHAM	Thomas F. (Rev.)	Sergt
20010	FREEBORN	Robert Henry	Private	6
20160	GAMBLE	Francis Clarke	Private	8
20189	GARDNER	Charles Edwin	Private
	GARDNER	John	Captain	10
20232	GARRETT	Thomas	Private
20347	GENTLEMAN	Charles	Private
20401	GIBSON	Allan	Corpl
20403	GIBSON	Donald	Ensign	10
20405	GIBSON	Gardeoni	Private
20409	GIBSON	James	Private
20438	GIBSON	William	Corpl
20440	GIBSON	William	Private
20457	GILBERT	Alexander Glen	Private
	GILLMOR	Charles Todd	Major	Staff	Acting CO
20633	GOOD	George	Private
20661	GOODWILLIE	John Milton	Private	9
20693	GORDON	Thomas	Private	2
20713	GORRIE	Samuel	Sergt	10
20806	GRAHAM	William	Private
20857	GRANTHAM	Charles Henry	Private
20859	GRASETT	Henry James	Private
20902	GRAY	Thomas	Private	7
20935	GREEN	Richard Waddilove E.	Private	8
20963	GREENSIDES	Isaac	Private	3
21024	GRIFFITH	Edward D.	Private	4
21030	GRIFFITH	Robert	Private
21065	GROVER	Thomas Maitland	Private
21217	HALLAM	James	Private
21380	HARDING	Thomas	Private
21401	HARMAN	Davidson M.	Bugler
21403	HARMAN	George Frederick	Sergt
21407	HARMAN	Samuel Bruce	Ensign
21452	HARRIS	George F. R.	Private	UCC
21466	HARRIS	Rusk	Private	8
21477	HARRIS	William Robert	Captain	Staff	Paymaster
21512	HARTE	George Stanley	Private
21548	HASKETT	John Henry	Private
21669	HEASLIP	Thomas	Private
21677	HEATH	Stuart Beirley W.	Private
21756	HENDERSON	William Richard	Sergt
21824	HEWARD	Edward H.T.	Private
21837	HEWITT	James	Private
21912	HILL	Arundel Chas.	Corporal
21920	HILL	George Arthur	Private
22018	HODGINS	Thomas	Private
22068	HOLLAND	H. F.	Private
22105	HOLMES	Richard	Private
22113	HOLMESTED	Francis	Private
22151	HOPE	Robert	Private
22188	HORNIBROOK	John T.	Private
22217	HOUGHTON	Thomas Abel	Private	1
22239	HOW	James B.	Corpl
22240	HOW	John Yate	Sergt
22384	HUNTER	Alexander	Private
22413	HUNTER	William Lewis	Private
22426	HURRY	James Henry	L/Corpl
22430	HURST	James Shotton	Private
22441	HUSTON	William John	Private
22475	HYDE	Arthur Benjamin	Private
22590	JACK	William	Private
22592	JACKES	Charles Bagot	Private	9
	JACKSON	James	Captain	Staff	Quartermaster
22610	JACKSON	John	Private
22730	JENNINGS	William Tyndale	Private
22896	JONES	Charles Jerome	Private
22955	JOSE	Joseph Harris	Bugler
22956	JOSE	Richard	Corpl
22991	JUNOR	Rev. David	Private
23036	KEIGHLEY	Henry Jordan	L/Corpl
23137	KENNEDY	William Charles	Private
23159	KER	Edgar	Private	1
23160	KER	Frederick Morrison	Private	1
23269	KING	John	Private	9
23297	KINGSFORD	Rupert Etheredge	Private	9	Wounded
23461	LACON	William Thomas	L/Corpl
23505	LAING	James B.	Corpl
	LAKEY	Francis	Corpl	2	Died of wounds
23615	LANG	John William	Private
23750	LAUDER	Andrew Knox	Corpl	10
23857	LEAKE	Joseph	Bugler
23922	LEE	Alexander G.	Lieutenant	5
23925	LEE	Charles R. (Rev.)
24063	LESLIE	George Henry	Private
24109	LEWIS	George	Private	3
	LOCKIE	Thomas Eman	Corpl	10	Died of illness
24294	LONGSTAFF	John Nolton	Private
24333	LOUDON	James	Private
24387	LUGSDEN	Charles	Private		Wounded
24388	LUGSDEN	Joseph	Private	4	Wounded
24736	MACDIARMID	William	Private
24740	MACDONALD	Albert Angus	Private
24777	MACDONALD	Frederick	Private
24877	MACE	George Wm.	Drummer	10
24878	MACE	Henry William	Color Sergt
25015	MACGREGOR	John	Private
25487	MACMURCHY	Archibald
	MACPHERSON	A	Captain	7
25741	MALCOLM	Robert	Sergt
25819	MARA	Henry Stephens
25889	MARSHALL	Kenric Countze	Staff Sergt	3
25894	MARSHALL	Thomas	Private
25972	MASON	James	L/Corpl
25977	MASON	Thomas
	MATHESON	Hugh	Sergt	2	Died of wounds
26006	MATHESON	James D.	Bugler
26068	MAY	Samuel Papmore	Asst Surgeon	Staff
24512	MCBRIDE	Robert	Private	10
24534	MCCALLUM	Frederick Henry	Private
24582	MCCASKILL	Finlay H.	Private
	MCCLELLAND	Thomas James	Private	7
24624	MCCOMB	Samuel	L/Corpl
24648	MCCORMACK	Andrew	Color Sergt	2
24822	MCDonald	Peter Randall	Corpl
	MCEACHREN	Malcolm	Ensign	5	Killed in action
24881	MCEACHREN	Neil	Staff Sergt
	MCHARDY	Forbes	Color Sergt	10	Wounded
25066	MCINTOSH	Andrew	Color Sergt	5
	MCKENZIE	Malcolm	Private	9	Killed in action
	MCKINLAY	Archibald Reid	Private	4
	MCLEAN	T A	Ensign	6
25357	MCLEAN	William Allan	Corpl	8
25426	MCMAHON	John	Sergt
25492	MCMURRICH	John Bryce	Private
25589	MCPHERSON	James	Private	5
26131	MENGIES	Charles	Corpl
26139	MENZIES	William	Private
	MEWBURN	John Harriman	Private	9	Killed in action
26193	MEWBURN	Lloyd Thomas	Private
26287	MILLGATE	Robert	Private
26325	MILNE	David W.	Private
26421	MODERWELL	Malcolm C.	Private	9
26431	MOFFATT	Lewis H.	Private
26557	MOORE	John Kendall	Private
26629	MORGAN	James Choppin	Private	9
	MORRISON	Farquhar	Lieutenant	2
26714	MORROW	George Edwin	Private
26726	MORTIMER	Arthur E.	Bandsman
26779	MOWAT	Donald Geddes	Private
26798	MUIR	Alexander	Private	10	Wounded
26810	MULHOLLAN	Robert Edward	Private
26855	MURDOCH	Charles Henry	Corpl
26922	MUSSEN	Ephraim Horace	Private
27056	NESBITT	Samuel	Private
27114	NICHOLSON	Harry Albert	Private
27190	NORTON	Thomas	Private
27195	NOTT	Frederick	Private
27199	NOVERRE	Frank Arthur	Corpl
27200	NOVERRE	John Harrington	Private	5
27201	NOVERRE	Philip Edward	Private
27208	NURSEY	Walker R.	Private
27223	OATES	Edward Frederick	Sergt
27295	OLIPHANT	Alexander M.	Pipe Major	10
27349	O’REILLY	John	Lieutenant	8
27364	ORR	John M. E.	Private	3
27390	OTTER	William Dillon	Captain	Staff	Adjutant
	OULSTER	Thomas	Private	1	Wounded
27458	PALEN	Robert	Private	5
27541	PARKER	Samuel King	Corpl
27545	PARKER	William Henry	Bugler
	PATERSON	E J	Private	9	Wounded
27604	PATERSON	Peter	Captain
27611	PATRICK	Allan Poyntz	Private
27625	PATTERSON	George	Private	9	Wounded
27640	PATTERSON	Robert Lawrence	Corpl
27663	PATTULLO	George Robson	Private
27665	PAUL	Edgar T.	Private	9	Wounded
27726	PEARSON	Edwin Pritchard	Private
27862	PETERKIN	Charles Robert	Private
27863	PETERKIN	James Frederick	Private
27869	PETERS	Robert	Private
27991	PIGGOTT	James	Private
28007	PIM	John	Private	8
28185	POUSETTE	Alfred Passmore	Private	8
28261	PRIESTMAN	John	Private
28331	PYE	Henry	Band Sergt
28375	RABY	Marie Gaspard	L/Corpl
28381	RADENHURST	George A	Private
28388	RAE	George Martin	Private
28411	RAMSAY	Robert Hamilton	Lieutenant	10
28415	RAMSAY	William John	Private
28504	REES	Frederick M.	Private
28574	RENNIE	George	Private
28656	RICHARDS	John Butler	L/Corpl
28661	RICHARDSON	Charles	Private	3
28680	RICHARDSON	William	Private	UCC
28737	RINGHAM	Robert Dennis	Private
28811	ROBERTSON	James Edward	Private
	ROBINS	Jno	Corpl		Died of illness
	ROBINS	Paul	Corpl	6	Wounded
28873	ROBINSON	John Beverly	Private
28879	ROBINSON	Stechan Napier	Private
28884	ROBINSON	Thomas A.	Private
28966	ROGERS	David	Private
29090	ROSS	Malcolm Samuel	Private
29271	RUTHERFORD	James Boyd	Private	6	Wounded
29279	RUTHLEDGE	Henry George	Private
29341	RYERSON	Charles Egerton	Private	8
29447	SANDERSON	George	Bandsman
29499	SAVAGE	William	Private
29555	SCOLEY	Edward Kent	Private
29595	SCOTT	Robert	Private
29788	SHAW	Alexander Croft	Private	8
29791	SHAW	David	Private
29793	SHAW	Duncan Wm	Private	8
29798	SHAW	George A	Private	5
	SHERWOOD	L P	Captain	8
29902	SHIELL	Andrew	Private
29945	SIBBALD	Charles	Corpl
30009	SIMPSON	John	Private
30040	SINCLAIR	Donald	Private
30143	SMITH	Alexander	Private
30163	SMITH	Charles T	Private
30300	SMITH	Robert A.	Private
30317	SMITH	Thomas L.	Private
	SMITH	William D	Private	2	Killed in action
	SMITH		Ensign	7
30372	SMYTH	Samuel	Corpl
30375	SMYTHE	Edward Handley	Corpl
30406	SOFTLY	John	Private
30412	SOMERS	Frank	Private
30452	SPARLING	Christopher	Private
30482	SPENCE	John	Private
30531	SPROULE	John Henry	Private
30717	STEWART	Arthur Page	Private
	STINSON	John G R	Lieutenant	7
30811	STINSON	John Theophilus R.	Ensign
30937	STUBBS	Jacob	Corpl	Staff
30949	STURT	Walter P.	Corpl
31009	SUTHERLAND	Robert William	Sergt
31024	SWAN	Henry	Private
31042	SWIFT	Charles	Bandsman
31122	TARLETON	William Irving	Private	2
31151	TAYLOR	George Irwin	Private	8
	TAYLOR	Robert	Sergt-Major
	TEMPEST	William Fairbanks	Private	9	Killed in action
31236	TENNY	Arthur James	Corpl
31336	THOMPSON	Edward Wm	Private
31346	THOMPSON	Henry	Private
31358	THOMPSON	James	Private
31366	THOMPSON	John	Private	2
31378	THOMPSON	Joseph	Corpl
31394	THOMPSON	Samuel George	Bugler
31404	THOMPSON	William	Private	2	Wounded
31435	THORBURN	James	Major	Staff	Surgeon
31490	TIJOU	Walter	Private
31630	TREMBLE	James	Private
31746	TURNER	George Richard	Private
30137	VAN DER SMISSEN	Wiliam Henry	Private	9	Wounded
31914	VERNER	John	Sergt
31953	VILLIERS	William	Private
31996	WAINRIGHT	Thomas	Private
32054	WALKER	Thaddeus	Private
32065	WALKER	William Thomas	Private	3
32084	WALLACE	William	Sergt
32132	WALTON	Charles Albert	Private
32212	WARREN	Frank	Private	UCC
32229	WARRINGTON	Arthur	Corpl
32242	WATKINS	John Harton	Private
32243	WATKINS	Robert P.	Corpl
32253	WATSON	Henry	Sergt	UCC
32268	WATSON	Richard	L/Corpl
32283	WATT	William Jr.	Private	9
32363	WELCH	Arthur Henry	Private
32452	WHARIN	William	Ensign	3
32456	WHEELER	Alexander Everard	Private	6
	WHITE	John	Private	10	Wounded
32537	WHITEHEAD	William	Private
32551	WHITESIDE	Thomas R.	Private	2
	WHITNEY	George Y	A/Captain	9
32589	WICKENS	George	Private
32599	WIDDIFIELD	Joseph Henry	Private
32651	WILKINSON	Charles	Private
32681	WILLIAMS	Adolphus	Private
32754	WILLING	Robert Burns	Private
32766	WILLOUGHBY	Hugh Beloe A.	Private
32909	WILMAN	Horace Henry	Private
32915	WINDSOR	Hiram	Private
32934	WINTER	Charles	Private	3	Wounded
33010	WOOD	Riley Benton	Private
33043	WOODS	Edward	Corpl
33098	WRAY	Thomas	Private
33102	WRIGHT	Adam Henry	Private
33152	WRIGHT	William George	Corpl
33183	WYLLIE	George B	Bugler	4
33204	YEATS	William Ball	Private