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147th Battalion

1914-1918

The 147th Overseas Battalion was formed in the winter of 1915-1916, through recruitment primarily in the area of Grey County.  Their commanding officer was Lieutenant Colonel G. F. McFarland.  Over 1,000 men attested to this Battalion.  In January

1917, the 147th Battalion ceased to exist when it and the 110th and 159th Battalions became the nucleus of the 8th Reserve Battalion.

Soldiers

Armstrong, John
Armstrong, Leslie Kyle
Campbell, George
Cutting, Gordon Rufus
Cutting, Robert (Bert)
Dodsworth, Harold Willoughby
Edmonstone, Sydney Ivar
Ford, Victor
Foster, Robert Wellington
Foster, William Earl
Girling, Ennis Daniel
Hayward, Wellington Stanley
Hazen, Robert Henry
Helwig, Norman William
Holmes, Thomas William
Howes, David Edwin
Johnson, Herbert Haines
Jucksch, Arnold Homer
Kupskie, William
Liddle, Gilbert
Livingstone, John Alexander
Livingstone, William Henry
Mielhaausen, Manuel
Olthoff, W.J.
Orford, Charles Edgar
Partridge, George Henry
Pearce, Percy William John
Pike, Victor Emerson
Pollock, Robert
Pridmore, John
Reynolds, George Witter
Rodgers, John Ernest
Rourke, Charles Wesley
Rumley, Hugh Cleland
Sensabaugh, Charles Oliver
Shular, John
Shular, Louis
Siegrist, Oliver F.
Spencer, Gerald L.
Spencer, Percy Ralph
Thompson, Arthur Frederick
Thompson, Edmund Earl
Totten, Walter Coate
Watchorn, Thomas Lawrence
Whetton, Norman 'Major'
Woodbridge, Samuel Baldwin

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