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His attestation papers offer a few details about him. He was unmarried, a civil engineer, and belonged to a militia unit, the Alberta Dragoons. His next of kin was George M. Manuel, relationship unnoted. Medical records show him with dark hair, gray eyes, medium complexion, and standing five feet six inches tall.
Print/export Download as PDF; ... he joined the 71st York Regiment of the Canadian Militia in 1906 and was appointed a lieutenant in 1907. ... "Attestation paper".
Federalist No. 29, titled "Concerning the Militia", is a political essay by Alexander Hamilton and the twenty-ninth of The Federalist Papers.It was first published in Independent Journal on January 9, 1788, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist Papers were published.
The Royal Meath Militia became the 5th (Royal Meath Militia) Battalion, the King's County became the 3rd Bn and the Queen's County became the 4th Bn (the Longford Rifles and Westmeath joined the Rifle Brigade). [5] [32] [3] In 1898 the 5th Bn took part in the army manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain. [3]
The Militia Act of 1808 provided funding for arms and equipment to state militias. The Militia Act of 1795 was, in turn, amended by the Militia Act of 1862, which allowed African-Americans to serve in the militias. [citation needed] The 1792 and 1795 acts left the question of state versus federal militia control unresolved.
Bell was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and was working as a mechanical engineer on the outbreak of the war. [4] He served in the Governor General's Foot Guards, [5] before signing attestation papers for service overseas on 1 February 1915, and was assigned to the 38th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, [6] with the rank of lieutenant.
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The "Defense of Rorke's Drift" by Adolph Alphonse de Neuville. Jones's attestation papers list him as being born at Evesham, Worcestershire.He may have been of the family of shoemakers by the name of Jones that lived in Cowl Street, Evesham, in the mid-1840s, [2] but he was actually born on 16 August 1839 at 5 Lucas Street, Castle Precincts, Bristol.