British Columbia World War One

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: British Columbia

Here are the profiles for some of the people from British Columbia who served in The Great War.

This is a project of the British Columbia Team.

Progress abbreviations:

• BAC-LAC: Library and Archives Canada, Personnel Records of the First World War source added
• Bur: Burial info (Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) and/or FindAGrave) source added
• Sticker: Killed in Action or Great War sticker added.
• Cat: Categories added

Suggested sources for this project:

• Personnel Records of the First World War
• Canadian Virtual War Memorial
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) search page
• Canadian Great War Project

See also:

• Category: Canadian Armed Forces
• Project: Military and War: Stickers
• Stickers: Military Help-Killed in Action

Sticker examples:

{{Roll of Honor | category = Killed in Action, Canada, World War I | image = Roll_of_Honor_Template-15.jpg | rank = Private | description = Killed in Action at France, 8 April 1917, serving with 7th Battalion Canadian Infantry | war = World War I}}

{{The Great War |branch=Canadian Expeditionary Force |startdate= Mar 12 1915 |units= 16th Battalion |enddate= 4 Sep 1916 |rank=Pvt |image=Flags-22.png}}

Areas of further research:

The Wreck of HMCS Galiano October 1918

Name	Birth date and place	Progess	Death date and place
Arthur Taylor	16 Nov 1892/Vancouver	BAC-LAC, Sticker, Cat, Bur	22 Sep 1916/France
Robert Frederick Edwin Buscombe	3 Dec 1890/Vancouver	Sticker, Cat, Bur	21 Jun 1915/England or France
Robert Oscar Cyril Ward	5 May 1881/Victoria	British Army Record, Sticker, Cat, Bur	20 Nov 1917/Metz-en-Couture, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Murray MacKay Winchester	3 Feb 1898/Victoria	BAC-LAC, Sticker, Cat, Bur	9 Apr 1917/Vimy Ridge, France
Thomas Alexander Connolly	23 Mar 1896/Surrey	BAC-LAC, Sticker, Cat	11 Apr 1917/Neuville-Saint-Vaast, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
John Russell Snow	31 Mar 1900/Vancouver	BAC-LAC, Sticker, Cat	5 Feb 1918/Vancouver
George Leonard Trapp	1 Jul 1894/New Westminster	Sticker, Cat, Bur	13 Nov 1917/Poperinge, West Flanders, Belgium
Hugh Thomas Stoddart	2 Feb 1898/New Westminster	BAC-LAC, Sticker, Cat, Bur	7 Feb 1917/France
Sam Sigurdur Goodman	7 Aug 1891/Victoria	BAC-LAC, Sticker, Cat, Bur	2 Sep 1918/France
Lucius Fieldsend Harmston	10 Dec 1894/Comox	BAC-LAC, Sticker, Cat, Bur	6 Jun 1916/Ypres, Belgium
Arthur Hume	22 Dec 1887/Sapperton	no BAC-LAC record found, Sticker, Cat, Bur	30 Oct 1918
Patrick Douglas MacLure McLagen	17 Mar 1890/Vancouver	Bur, needs further details/more sources	15 Oct 1917
Oliver Colin Harvey	30 Nov 1894/Enderby	Bur, needs more sources	4 Jul 1916
Eric Merrill Desbrisay	26 Mar 1893/Mission	Bur, needs more sources	3 Aug 1916/France
Sidney Welsh	12 Feb 1896/Vancouver	BAC-LAC, Sticker, Cat	27 Jan 1919/Vancouver
Charles Edmund McDonough	20 Jul 1897/New Westminster	BAC-LAC, Cat, needs biography	27 Jan 1919 in Vancouver
Robert Alexander McArthur	22 Jan 1892/Illecillewaet	BAC-LAC, Cat, Bur	1 Feb 1919/Vancouver
Henry Emerson	6 Dec 1892/Victoria	Cat, Sticker, Bur	8 Apr 1917/France
James Duff Stuart	2 Oct 1894/Vancouver	Bur, needs more sources	7 Mar 1917
Milford Devlin	1 Aug 1894/Nanaimo	BAC-LAC, Cat, Bur, needs biography	28 Sep 1918/France
Trueman Hamilton	22 Jul 1897/British Columbia	BAC-LAC, cat, bur	21 Aug 1917
James Robert Duncan Dundas	30 Jul 1899/Kelowna	Bur, improve biography/needs more sources	1 Feb 1918/England
James A Dunsmuir Jr	28 Jan 1894/Victoria	Added BAC-LAC file, why did he resign his Commission?	7 May 1915/Off South Coast of Ireland
George Brinton McClellan Sr.	30 Dec 1862/Alton, Ontario	BAC-LAC, cat	1 Aug 1927 in Vancouver
Henry Vivian Acland	27 Nov 1882/London, England	rank, regiment, BAC-LAC, Bur,	21 Jan 1968/Kelowna, British Columbia
Hector Child Whitaker	26 Feb 1887/Portage La Prairie, Manitoba	BAC/-LAC	3 May 1965/Summerland, British Columbia
Alban Ernest Dinsmore	23 Jun 1883/Harrison, Ontario	BAC/-LAC	7 Jul 1970/Vancouver, British Columbia