Timeline
The interactive timeline below provides a visual representation of our Old Boy fallen soldiers.
Lieutenant Ralph Egerton Norris Jones ’92
Died: April 6, 1916
Attended UCC 1891-1892
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Private Reginald Hewitt Capreol ’09
Died: April 10, 1916
Attended UCC 1905-1909
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Private Henry Douglas Laidlaw ’99
Died: April 19, 1916
Attended UCC 1896-1899
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Lieutenant Clifton M. Horsey ’08
Died: April 22, 1916
Attended UCC 1902-1908
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Lieutenant Thomas Molyneaux Graves
Died: April 22, 1916
Attended UCC 1899-1901
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Gunner Clare Levack ’14
Died: April 26, 1916
Attended UCC 1913-1914
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Lance Corporal Fred Dobie ’97
Died: May 7, 1916
Attended UCC 1896-1897
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Major George Edward Vansittart ’01
Died: May 14, 1916
Attended UCC 1900-1901
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Lieutenant Trafford Jones ’03
Died: May 16, 1916
Attended UCC 1898-1903
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Lieutenant Colonel William Renwick Marshall ’88
Died: May 19, 1916
Attended UCC 1887-1888
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Lieutenant Howard Primrose ’13
Died: May 26, 1916
Attended UCC 1904-1913
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Private George Tisdale ’14
Died: June 2, 1916
Attended UCC 1913-1914
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Lieutenant Harvey Watt Cockshutt ’01
Died: June 2, 1916
Attended UCC 1900-1901
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Lieutenant Edward Blake Allan ’97
Died: June 3, 1916
Attended UCC 1896-1897
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Lieutenant Charles Arthur Wilson ’05
Died: June 5, 1916
Attended UCC 1902-1905
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Lance Corporal Hugh Melville Carmichael ’05
Died: June 6, 1916
Attended UCC 1904-1905
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Lieutenant George Lawrence Bisset MacKenzie ’09
Died: June 7, 1916
Attended UCC 1902-1906, 1908-1909
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Lieutenant Oswald Wetherald Grant ’11
Died: June 13, 1916
Attended UCC 1906-1911
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Lieutenant Thomas Brehaut Saunders ’10
Died: June 13, 1916
Attended UCC 1904-1910
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Lance Corporal Aubrey De Vere Arnold Turquand ’09
Died: June 13, 1916
Attended UCC 1909-1911
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Gunner Sydney Mercer McWhinney ’15
Died: June 15, 1916
Attended UCC 1913-1915
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Lieutenant James Stanley Lightfoot Welch ’08
Died: July 1, 1916
Attended 1906-1908
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Second Lieutenant Guy Peirce Dunstan ’11
Died: July 1, 1916
Attended UCC 1907-1911
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Captain John Alfred Benjamin ’08
Died: July 5, 1916
Attended UCC 1905-1908
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Lieutenant Herbert Spencer Holcroft ’92
Died: July 8, 1916
Attended UCC 1888-1892
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Captain Wilfred James Dobson (Faculty)
Died: July 9, 1916
Assistant Master c.1909-1911
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Private Hugh Emerson McKay ’00
Died: July 9, 1916
Attended UCC 1898-1900
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Lance Corporal Thomas Gordon McLean ’13
Died: July 19, 1916
Attended UCC 1909-1913
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Lieutenant John Anthony Ninian Ormsby ’12
Died: August 2, 1916
Attended UCC 1904-1912
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Major-General Frederick William Benson
Died: August 19, 1916
Attended UCC circa 1864
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Lieutenant Henry Maurice Corbold ’15
Died: August 28, 1916
Attended 1908-1908, 1910-1915
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Private Allan Henry MacDonald ’77
Died: September 1, 1916
Attended 1874-1877
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Lieutenant Colonel Coote Nisbit Shanly ’80
Died: September 7, 1916
Attended 1875, 1876-1880
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Major William Archer Casey ’03
Died: September 8, 1916
Attended UCC 1899-1903
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Lieutenant Francis Carl Howard ’13
Died: September 9, 1916
Attended UCC 1908-1913
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Lieutenant John Ure Garrow ’06
Died: September 12, 1916
Attended UCC 1904-1906
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Captain John Cuthbert Stairs ’09
Died: September 15, 1916
Attended UCC 1905-1909
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Major Burns Ker Weld Thomson ’99
Died: September 15, 1916
Attended 1890, 1895-1899
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Lieutenant William Taylor Willison ’07
Died: September 15, 1916
Lieut. William Taylor Willison fell in action in the Somme advance on Sept. 15th, 1916. Lieut. Willison joined the Q.O.R. as a
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Lieutenant Archibald Walter MacDonald ’06
Died: September 15, 1916
Attended 1898-1906
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Second Lieutenant Maurice Irving Machell ’08
Died: September 15, 1916
Attended UCC 1904-1908
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Lieutenant Howard Elliott Scott ’10
Died: September 16, 1916
Attended UCC 1905-1910
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Captain John Egerton Ryerson ’03
Died: September 19, 1916
Attended UCC 1900-1903
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Lieutenant Ernest Alroy Simpson ’11
Died: September 22, 1916
Attended UCC 1905-1911
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Private William Francis Munro ’97
Died: October 1, 1916
Attended 1892-1893
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Lieutenant Claude Castlemaine Temple ’99
Died: October 2, 1916
Attended 1895-1899
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Lieutenant Henry Valmond Walker ’10
Died: October 8, 1916
Attended UCC 1909-1910
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Major Edmund Rochfort Street ’94
Died: October 15, 1916
Attended UCC 1889-1894
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Major Gordon Hamilton Southam ’03
Died: October 15, 1916
Attended UCC 1898-1903
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Lieutenant D’Arcy Rein Wadsworth ’10
Died: October 19, 1916
Attended UCC 1906-1910
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Driver Henry Horace Jones ’94
Died: October 21, 1916
Attended UCC 1894
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Lieutenant Frederic Gustavus Stupart ’14
Died: October 22, 1916
Attended UCC 1908-1914
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Major Charles Alexander Moss ’90
Died: October 24, 1916
Attended UCC 1885-1890
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Captain William Sinclair Tuck ’11
Died: October 30, 1916
Attended 1906-1911
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Lieutenant Victor Benson Wright ’13
Died: November 18, 1916
Attended UCC 1905-1913
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Major John Redmond Meredith ’91
Died: November 25, 1916
Attended UCC 1890-1891
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Lieutenant Irwin Davis ’12
Died: December 4, 1916
Attended UCC 1905-1912
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Captain Arthur Gerald Knight ’13
Died: December 20, 1916
Attended UCC 1905-1913
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On August 04, 2014, The Canadian Press published the following First World War timeline, with key Canadian 1916 dates:
June 2-13, 1916:
Battle of Mount Sorrel. Some 8,000 Canadian casualties.
July 1, 1916:
Opening day of the Battle of the Somme. The Newfoundland Regiment sent about 780 men into the attack and 684 were killed or wounded. The battle dragged out until mid-November, with the Canadian Corps joining the fighting in September. Canadian casualties: 24,029.
If you would like to see the original Canadian Press Timeline please follow this link .