Great Gunners

Major-General Elkins was born, 13 June 1883, at Sherbrooke, Quebec.  He graduated from the Royal Military College, Kingston, in June 1905, and joined the Royal Canadian Artillery.  His first posting was to “B” Battery, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (RCHA). In his early years, he served with “N” Battery, Royal Horse Artillery in India.  While on […]

He was born in Ireland in 1841. George Arthur French served for a short period with the Royal Irish Constabulary before entering military service.  He attended both Sandhurst and the Woolwich Military Academies.  He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in 1860. On arrival to Canada, in 1862, he was employed as Adjutant Royal Artillery

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