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Colonel De la Cherois T. Irwin was born in Ireland on 31 March 1843.  He entered the Royal Militia Academy, Woolwich, in 1860.  He became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1861.  He was posted to the 10th Brigade, then under an order for duty in the West Indies. The “Trent” affair created […]

Born in Quebec City, November 1852, young William Jordan became attracted to the military early in his life.  In 1866, at thirteen years of age, he enrolled as a boy bugler in the 8th Royal Rifles of Canada, serving in the Fenian Raids of 1870. With the withdrawal of the British Regular Troops from Canada

The son of another distinguished Canadian Gunner, Brigadier-General Edward Murray Dalziel “Teddy” McNaughton, was born in Guildford, Somerset, England, in October 1918.  To comply with the terms of an inheritance, he later changed his last name to Leslie.  He was educated in the United Kingdom and at Montreal’s Loyola College.  As a Gunner, he enlisted

Andrew Leslie was born in December 1957.  He attended schools in Canada, the USA, France, Cyprus, and Switzerland.  His family has a tradition of military service.  He joined the Army Reserves in 1977 (30th Field Artillery Regiment).  While in London, England, as a graduate student, he was attached to the Honourable Artillery Company.  In 1980,

Master Gunner James Maher, the son of a Trumpet-Major in the Royal Horse Artillery, was born in Portobello, near Dublin, Ireland, on 13 August 1839. Exposed to the ways of army life as a child, he enlisted in the Royal Artillery at Woolwich, 8 November 1852.  His initial documentation records him as “Age – 13