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The Canada General Service Medal was a campaign medal awarded by the Canadian Government [3] to both Imperial and Canadian forces for duties related to the Fenian raids between 1866 and 1871. [4] The medal was initially issued in 1899 and had to be applied for. [5] The application period was later extended to 1907, then to 1928.
The Fenian raids were a series of incursions carried out by the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization based in the United States, on military fortifications, customs posts and other targets in Canada (then part of British North America) in 1866, and again from 1870 to 1871. A number of separate incursions by the Fenian ...
3-4 dead, 16 wounded, 54 captured. During the 1866 Fenian raid of the Province of Canada, the Battle of Fort Erie was a surrounding and forcing of the Fenian armies surrender following a skirmish near Fort Erie and the farther-away Battle of Ridgeway on June 2. The Fenian force, withdrawing from Ridgeway, met a small force of Canadian militia ...
The final casualty figures for the Fenian Raids into Canada 1866, when including deaths from disease while on service in both Canada West (Ontario) and Canada East (Quebec), were calculated by the Militia Department in 1868 as 32 dead and 103 wounded or felled by disease (including a female civilian accidentally shot by the militia). [18]
Brome-Missisquoi veteran soldiers from the Missisquoi 60th Battalion proudly wore their new commemorative military medals engraved with the Fenian Raids of 1866–1870 inscription. [5] In fact, after thirty years since the end of the Battle Of Eccles hill, the Canadian authorities decided to decorate all veterans who participated in pushing ...
Sergeant in the Iroquois Garrison Artillery during the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870, awarded the Canada General Service Medal: Theodore F. Chamberlain: Lieutenant in the Dundas Infantry Company during the Fenian Raids: Joseph Hyndman: Captain in the Dundas Militia during the Fenian Raids, commanded a battalion in 1869
The establishment of the two Middlesex area regiments in 1866 led to the essential disbanding of the sedentary county militia. Both regiments would serve on active duty during the Fenian Raids and many veterans would receive the Canada General Service Medal.
Irish Republican Brotherhood. Rebellions in Canada. Post-Confederation Canada (1867–1914) Violence in Canada. Civil wars in Canada. Invasions of Canada. Hidden categories: Automatic category TOC generates no TOC. Commons category link is on Wikidata.