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One of Ernest Dalton Roy Dunsmore's diary entries. (Blair Dunsmore.)

Ernest Dalton Roy Dunsmore. (Blair Dunsmore.)

Ernest Dalton Roy Dunsmore

Ernest Dalton Roy Dunsmore enlisted with the 1st Depot Battalion Saskatchewan Regiment on October 18, 1917.

Ernest Dalton Roy Dunsmore enlisted with the 1st Depot Battalion Saskatchewan Regiment on October 18, 1917. The private was never sent overseas. After the war he lived in Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, where he ran a trucking business. He married Sarah (née Hay) in 1924 and they had three kids.

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Ernest Dalton Roy Dunsmore

Ernest Dalton Roy Dunsmore enlisted with the 1st Depot Battalion Saskatchewan Regiment on October 18, 1917.

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Sir Donald Alexander Macdonald

His connection with Hughes may have stood in the way of his getting the overseas position, in spite of Prime Minister Robert Borden’s support.

Sir David Watson

He wrote, "My God! What an awful night we have had. Lost about 200 men & 6 officers of no.1 Coy. They are embedded in my mind to be ever forgotten."

Malcolm Smith Mercer

Apart from showing his courage under fire, the battle was no test of Mercer’s ability in combat.

Heber Rogers

Heber Rogers was hit fifteen times in the face by shrapnel, captured by German troops, and hauled to a POW camp.

George Cosc

George Cosc of Pincher Creek, Alberta served with the Canadian Mounted Rifles in England and France from 1915 to 1918.