Benjamin Chalmers Salter served in Cyclists Corps. (Margaret Bowen.)
Benjamin Chalmers Salter. (Margaret Bowen.)
Benjamin Chalmers Salter and friend Earl Lockerby, killed September 16, 1916. (Margaret Bowen.)
78th Highlanders in 1915. (Margaret Bowen.)

Benjamin Chalmers Salter

Benjamin Chalmers Salter was a minister in the Maritimes before enlisting in 1914 from Nova Scotia.

Benjamin Chalmers Salter was a minister in the Maritimes. He served as a lieutenant for the 42nd Battalion and the 2nd Divisional Cyclists Company in the First World War and as a chaplain in the Second World War.

He was born on March 19, 1892 in Chatham, New Brunswick. He enlisted to the Great War on December 2, 1914 from Nova Scotia.

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