July-9-08
List of men who served in
The Halifax Provisional Battalion
(activated from The 63 Battalion (Halifax Rifles) and the Princess Louise Fusiliers)in service forThe Northwest Rebellion of 1885.
Halifax Provisional Bn at Swift Current, Saskatchewan, 1885
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The following List was provided by Jay Underwood of Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, with thanks.
–Cyril Gray
“During the research for my book "Built For War: Canada's Intercolonial Railway" I compiled a list of the names of the men who fought with the Halifax Provisional Battalion during the Northwest Rebellion 1885.
These men took the Intercolonial from Halifax to Montreal.
Jay Underwood
ElmsdaleNS”
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A
Adams, Charles H. Cpl.
Adams, Stanley Pte
Anderson, Alexander 2lt.
Anderson, Alfred Pte
Anderson, Arthur Pte
Anderson, George Pte
Anderson, William Pte
Andrews, Herbert Pte
B
Baker, Alfred Pte
Balcam, Henry Cpl
Bannister, George Sgt
Barrett, James LCpl
Barrowman, James LCpl
Bateman, Alfred E. Pte.
Bauld, Alfred Pte
Beamish, Charles Pte
Berry, Henry Pte
Berry, William Pte
Bezanson, Alfred Pte
Bezanson, Hardy P. Cpl
Bishop, Thomas Pte
Bishop, William C. Pte
Blackburn, John Pte
Blackmore, Richard Jr. Pte
Blackwood, Harry Pte
Boggs, Beaumont Lieut.
Bone, Augustus Pte
Bower, Charles L. Pte
Brackett, James Pte
Brackett, Thomas Pte
Bremner, Benjamin Pte
Bremner, James Alex. Lt
Bremner, James J. Lcol
Brennan, James Pte
Brodie, Charles D. Pte
Brooks, William Pte
Brown, Frederick R. Cpl
Brown, John H. Pte
Buckland, Joseph Pte
Bulger, James Pte
Burgey, George Pte
Busby, Edward Pte
C
Caldwell, J. William Pte
Caldwell, John LCpl
Caldwell, William P. Pte
Cameron, Charles Pte
Camp, William Pte
Carmichael, John Pte
Carroll, Charles Pte
Cartwright, Conway Edward 2Lt
Cass, Thomas Pte
Chapman, George Pte
Chapman, Samuel Pte
Chapman, William Pte
Chisholm, John S. LCpl
Clark, William S. Pte
Clarke, Frederick Pte
Cochrane, Michael Pte
Cohen, Daniel Pte
Coldwell, Henry G. Pte
Conners, James Pte
Conrod, John Pte
Conrod, John Sgt
Coolen, James Pte
Corbett, William Cpl
Corbin, John G. Capt. & Quartermaster
Creighton, James Pte
Creighton, L. Norman Paymaster clerk
Creighton, Norman L. Pte
Crocker, Joseph Cpl
Cullen, Michael F. Sgt
Cummins, William Pte
Cunningham, Alfred G. Capt
Cunningham, James Cpl
Currell, Charles Pte
Curren, James Edward Capt
Curry, William Cpl
D
Dalrymple, Robert Cpl
Dancy, William Pte
Dauphin, Albert LCpl
Davies, John LCpl
Davis, Richard LCpl
Deluchry, John Pte
Devancy, Daniel Pte
Devancy, Robert Pte
Dixon, Louis Sgt
Donohue, James Pte
Dorey, Ariel Pte
Dougherty, William H. Pte
Doull, Alexander M.H. Acting Quartermaster
Driscoll, John Pte
Drysdale, Angus Pte
E
Earle, John Pte
Edmonds, William Pte
Elliott, Rafus B. Quartermaster Sgt
Emberly, Emanuel Pte
Emmerson, William Cpl
Evans, James Pte
Everitt, Theodore T. Pte
F
Fairbanks, James Prescott Lt
Fidler, Robert Pte
Fisher, William Pte
Fiske, Cyrus K. 1Lt
Fitzgerald, John Pte
Fitzgerald, Joseph Pte
Fitzgerald, William Cpl
Fleming, Peter Pte
Fletcher, Charles R. 2Lt
Flinn, Dennis Pte
Flinn, Richard Pte
Fluke, William Pay Sgt
Fortune, James Capt
Fraser, Harry E. Pte
Fraser, James Pte
Fraser, Walter Pte
Frawley, William Pte
Frickleton, Albert Pte
G
Gabriel, Charles E. Pte
Garnett, Frederick Pte
Garrison, William A. Capt. & paymaster
Gentles, Stewart Pte
Gibson, Charles W. LCpl
Gill, Thomas Sgt. Maj.
Gorman, James LCpl
Gormley, Donald Pte
Graham, Peter Pte
Gray, David Pte
Gray, William H. Pte
Griffin, Edward Pte
H
Halls, Frederick E. Pte
Hann, Thomas Pte
Hare, Alfred Pte
Hare, Arthur Pte
Hare, Harry M. Hosp. Sgt
Harrigan, James Pte
Harrington, Daniel D. Asst. Surgeon
Harris, Charles Pte
Harris, Ernest Pte
Harrison, George Pte
Harriss, Henry S. Pte
Hartlen, Edward Pte
Hechler, Henry Capt
Henderson, Frederick Pte
Hensley, Hubert 2Lt
Hesson, William LCpl
Hickey, William Pte
Hill, Henry Pte
Hill, John Pte
Hill, William Brig. Sgt Maj
Hiltz, Sosthenes Pte
Hines, John Pte
Hoare, Walter LCpl
Holland, Herbert Pte
Hopkinson, James Pte
Horseman, Thomas Sgt
Horton, Robert Pte
Hubly, Isaac Pte
Huggins, John Alexander Pte
Hughes, Herbert Pte
Hughes, John S. Cpl
Humphrey, Peter LCpl
Humphrey, Robert H. Capt
Hunt, Charles J. LCpl
Hunt, John Pte
Hunter, Edward Cpl
I
Innes, James Pte
Isner, Benjamin Pte
Isner, Nathan Cpl
J
Jackson, Charles Pte
James, Thomas C. Lt
Jessinghouse, George Pte
Johnson, Henry Pte
Johnson, William Pte
Johnstone, Robert Malcolm LCpl
Jones, J.H. Stole Pte
Jones, Robert Pte
K
Kaizer, Alfred G. Sgt
Kane, William Lester Lt
Keating, Charles H. Pte
Keefe, Michael Cpl
Keley, John Pte
Kelly, Charles P. Bugler
Kelly, John Pte
Kempt, Edward Pte
Kennedy, William Pte
Kenny, Edward G. Capt & Adj
Kerr, John Pte
Keynalds, Henry Sgt (*May have been Reynalds)
Kiddy, James Sgt
Kidston, Charles LCpl
King, Andrew Cpl
Knodell, Charles Pte
L
Lambert, Thomas Sgt
Langridge, William Cpl
Lannigan, John Pte
Latter, James Pte
Lawless, Michael Pte
Leadley, William Pte
Lenighan, John LCpl
Leslie, Matthew Pte
Leverman, Charles Pte
Lewis, Wilmot Pte
Lightizer, George Pte
Little, Robert Pte
Locke, Reuben Sgt
Lourie, Peter Sgt
Lowrie, George Pte
Lowrie, Thomas Pte
Lucas, John Pte
M
McCarthy, Joseph, Austin 2Lt .
McCrow, John Capt
McDermott, Isaac James Pte
McDonald, Charles J. Maj
McDonald, Daniel Pte
MacDonald, James Pte
McDonald, John Pte
McDonald, William Pte
McDonnell, John Pte
McDowall, George Sgt
McGrath, Peter Pte
McGrath, Robert Pte
McInnis, John Pte
McIntosh, John Pte
McKay, James LCpl
McKenzie, John Pte
McKie, Crawford J. 2Lt
MacKinlay, Charles Henry Capt
McKinley, Alexander Pte
MacLean, Elifa Pte
McLeod, Charles Pte
McNab, Hugh Pte
Mahar, Andrew Pte
Malcolm, Charles Pte
Manuel, Charles Pte
Marshall, John W. LCpl
Marshall, Joseph B. Pte
Martin, John Pte
Martin, W. Harry Pte
Marwick, Fred R. Pte
Mason, Minai S. Pte
Meden, George Pte
Mellick, Henry Pte
Merlin, Rupert G. Cpl
Michener, Arthur A. Pte
Milberry, Henry Pte
Miller, John Pte
Mills, George Pte
Monaghan, Edward Pte
Monaghan, William Pte
Morgan, David Pte
Morgan, Thomas Pte
Morris, Charles Pte
Morrison, John Pte
Mott, William Pte
Muhlig, William Pte
Muir, Andrew Pte
Mulkern, Michael Pte
Mumford, Charles N. Pte
Mumford, Mark C. Sgt
Munnis, Robert H. Pte
Munro, Charles Pte
Murphy, James Pte
Murphy, James P. Cpl
Murphy, Joseph Pte
Murray, Walter Pte
Myers, William Cpl
Mylius Louis J. Pte
N
Nauffts, George Cpl
Naylor, Charles Pte
Needham, John Pte
Noble, Butler G. Pte
Norris, Alonzo Pte
O
Oakley, James Pte
O’Brien, James Pte
O’Brien, Michael Pte
O’Brien, Mortimer Pte
O’Donnell, Edmond Cpl
O’Donnell, Thomas Pte
Oldham, Henry A. Sgt
O’Neill, John Pte
P
Parker, George Pte
Parker, William Pte
Patterson, John R. Pte
Paul, Thomas Pte
Pentz, William H. Pte
Peverall, Arthur Pte
Pickering, William Pte
Pickford, Charles C. LCpl
Pitblado, Charles Bruce Chaplain
Porter, George Pte
Power, Laurence Pte
Power, Louis Bugler
Power, Patrick Pte
Power, William Pte
Prebble, Thomas Pte
Q
Quinan, Charles J. Pte
Quirk, Henry Pte
R
Reardon, James Gunner
Reilly, John Pte
Robson, James G. Bn Sgt Maj
Romans, Clifford W. Pte
Romans, David Pte
Romans, Stanley H. Pte
Ross, James Pte
Rossbottom, Thomas Sgt
Ryan, William Pte
Ryley, Frederick Perry Pte
S
Sampson, Thomas LCpl
Saunders, Samuel LCpl
Schrage, Richard Pte
Schrum, James Pte
Seals, Charles Pte
Shaw, Rupert Pte
Sheerlock, Robert A. Cpl
Siggens, George W. Pte
Silver, Harold St. C. Lt
Skimmings, Robert H. 2Lt
Skinner, William Pte
Smith, Charles Pte
Spike, William D. Pte
Sterling, W. Charles OR Clerk
Storey, Edward Pte
Street, William Pte
Studd, Edward Bugler
Sullivan, Edward LCpl
Sullivan, John Pte
Sutcliffe, Emmett Pte
Symonds, John Pte
T
Taaffe, David Bugle Sgt
Taple, Robert Pte
Terry, Joseph Pte
Theakston, Frederick Pte
Thomas, Alpheus Pte
Thornton, George LCpl
Thornton, John Pte
Tobin, Charles Sgt
Tobin, Robert Cpl
Tobin, William Surgeon
Topple, William Pte
Tough, George Pte
Townsend, John LCpl
Troop, Thomas Pte
Tupper, William J. Pte
Turner, Gustave Pte
Twining, John T. Jr. Lt
U
Umlah, Frank Pte
Umlah, James Pte
V
Valot, George A. LCpl
Verge, William Pte
Vogel, Herman Pte
Volens, Edward Pte
Von Schoppe, Joseph Steven Pte
W
Wakefield, George Pte
Walker, William H. Pte
Wallace, Benjamin Pte
Walsh, Thomas J. Maj
Waterfield, Charles W. Pte
Watkins, William Pte
Watt, John W. Pte
Weatherby, Frederick Pte
Wells, Walter Pte
West, Walter W. Sgt
Weston, Byron A. Capt
Whitman, Alfred W. Lt
Whittemore, John Sgt
Whittle, Henry Pte
Williams, Samuel Sgt
Williams, William Sgt
Wilson, Albert Pte
Wilson, David Pte
Withers, Samuel Pte
Wood, Henry Pte
Woods, Douglas Pte
Woolard, Samuel Pte
Woolrich, Lostford Sgt
Wrightman, Thomas Pte
Y
Young, James Sgt
Young, John LCpl
Young,. William Pte
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