Founder of Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Engineers. Born Lambeth and baptised in the church of St. Mary-at-Lambeth, August 10, 1779. After a distinguished career in Canada and in the Peninsular War, he was called out of retirement in 1826 and sent to Canada to build the 200 kilometre Rideau Canal waterway from Ottawa River to Lake Ontario. It opened in 1832. By retired to Frant, East Sussex, where he died.
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Captain Alexander Ross Clarke
Surveyor. Â Born Reading. Served in Canada and on his return worked on the ordnance survey in Southampton. Â Died Reigate. Â the picture source has a bio.
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Lance Corporal William James Creswick
William James Creswick was born on 26 August 1881 in Southwark, Surrey (now Greater London), the eldest of the nine children of William Creswick (1859-1904) and Ada Creswick née Camm (1861-1946). T...
War dead, WW1
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F. Hagarty
A member of Jas. Shoolbred & Co. Ltd. who served in WW1 and returned.
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War dead, WW1
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Cpl. T. F. Bowden
Died in WW1 serving in the 22nd Battalion, The London Regiment.
War dead, WW1
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