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COBWFA Branch Committee Members - 2005/2006
Here are our committee members and their responsibilities as elected at the
Annual General Meeting on October 23, 2004 and revised in 2005:
- Honorary President - Captain (retired) John E. Haslam, CD
- Executive Committee
- Chairman* - Glenn Kerr
chairman@cobwfa.ca
- Vice Chairman* - To be determined
- Secretary - Gordon MacKinnon
secretary@cobwfa.ca
- Treasurer* - Diane Johnson
- Membership - this role is managed by the Chairman
- Volunteer Appointments
- Maple Leaf Newsletter Editor - Bruce Cane
- COBWFA Web Site - Floyd Low
- Tours Coordinator - Captain (retired) John E. Haslam, CD
- Historical Information Officer - Mr. Mark Giroux
- Sergeant-at-Arms - Larry Levett
Note that Mr. John Haslam is the Founding Chairman of the COBWFA. The *
indicates the executive positions that require membership in the WFA.
COBWFA Role of Honour
- Frederick Henry West - On May 1, 2000, Fred West (WW1 veteran,
Military Medal and Bar, Legion of Honour from France) and our COBWFA Honorary
Vice chairman quietly passed away in the Bowmanville Memorial Hospital. Fred
West was greatly loved, admired, and respected by many people from all walks
of society. He will be greatly missed and will never be forgotten.
Sharing among our COBWFA Members
Here is a list (last updated on 4 Feb 2007) of some of our members and their
interests. Do not hesitate to contact a member directly when you find some
research information to share.
- Ron Alldred (cmilne1566@rogers.com)
- 38th Battalion and 109th Battalion. Also, Ron is managing a COB project to
research the records and history of the 63 names listed on the Bowmanville WW1
Cenotaph.
- Kelly Campbell (kellylewiscampbell@sympatico.ca)
- the 58th CEF Battalion. Kelly knows a fellow, Ernie, whose father served in
the German army during the Great War and will invite him to our next COBWFA
meeting.
- Steven Dieter (sdieter@rogers.com)
from Ottawa, Ontario is a former historian at the
Billy Bishop Heritage Museum and
interested in the RFC/RNAS/RAF, CEF 19th Bn, 27th Bn, and also the 31 Regt
that was part of his Grandfather's unit (the Grey & Simcoe Foresters).
- John Haslam (John_Haslam@cobwfa.ca)
- 116th CEF, Third Division CEF, Pals Battalions BEF, Battle of the Somme,
Battles of Ypres, German Spring Offensive in March 1918.
- Mike Haskins (m.haskins@sympatico.ca)
- war in the air
- Benjamin Keevil bkeevil@cobwfa.ca) -
Canadians at Passchendaele - a special interest group to research the
activities of the Canadian 58th (Central Ontario) Batallion near Passchendaele
on October 26, 1917. Benjamin is also interested in the 43rd and 52nd
Battalions who fought beside the 58th and the 116th Battalion that was in a
support role on October 26, 1917.
- Mike Kenny (Mike.Kenny@dpcdsb.org) - the Somme, Ypres, and Gallipoli.
- Glen Kerr (chairman@cobwfa.ca) -
116th
- Larry Levett (llevettpara@hotmail.com) - 116th
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Al Lloyd's (21stbattalion@kos.net )
interest is the men of the 21st Battalion CEF.
His grandfather served with this battalion and thankfully came home safe. He
maintains the 21st Battalion website
which currently contains over 1500 photos of 21st Battalion members, with
the vast majority of them identified. Al is also a member of the 21st
Battalion Discussion Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/21sters/.
- Floyd Low webteam@cobwfa.ca- CEF 4th Division (11th, 54th, 75th, 87th and 102nd
Battalions). Floyd is developing a unique mapping technique to record the
location and movement of the Canadian 54th Battalion and
102nd
Battalion during the Great War. As if that`s not enough, he also has a US
ARMY WW1 Site - The 20th
Engineers featuring his grandfather.
- Steve Nichol (snichol@sympatico.ca)
- WW I related interests are Imperial German Spiked Helmets (Picklehaubes) and
Imperial German Regimental Steins as well as the 21st Battalion (Eastern
Ontario) of the CEF. He is currently writing a history of the 21st Battalion.
- Cliff Nyenhuis (c.nyenhuis@cobwfa.ca)-
116th CEF, Scottish RHR, R.E. -
tunnelling Coys, Reserve Infantry Regiment 11, 117th
Infantry Division, German Imperial Army.
- Gordon MacKinnon (SECRETARY)
- the 58th CEF Battalion and PPCLI
- Harold Mills (hmsmills@netrover.com)
- 31st
- Ray Montgomery (raysrabs@tbaytel.net) who lives 30 kms west of Thunder
Bay, Ontario, is starting a network of fellow descendants of the 102nd
Battalion, North British Columbians. His father fought in the CEF 102nd and
was at Passchendaele. Any other descendents, please contact Ray directly.
- John Sargeant of London Ontario currently researching 21st
Battalion, collecting, indexing and collating a list of the members of the 21st
Battalion, and collecting and collating stories about the 21st from
Canadian newspapers along with Al Lloyd of Kingston and Steve Nichol of
Almonte. Also moderates 21st Battalion Discussion web site
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/21sters/
- Don Vance (djvance@northcom.net
(sometimes broken)) - published a booklet on The Dead of the 75th CEF
Battalion, also researching the 66 Great War names on the
Bancroft Cenotaph
- Ian Waldron (ian.waldron@rogers.com)
- the 58th CEF Battalion
- Mr. George Kingsley Ward, see his site at
http://www.plmgroup.com/Zreport96officers.html
- Bill White (billwhite@mountaincable.net)
- general interest in the Great War
- Mark Giroux Mark_Giroux@cobwfa.ca Mark`s interest's in the great war are the human
aspect of the soldier in the front either the Canuck, Yank, Pouilou, The
Feldgrau's, how they lived what they had to live in and what they used to live
in it. Primary Interest's The 116th Battalion CEF, 117th Division Infanterie
Division Imperial German Army.
- Morley Verdier (morleyverdier@xplornet.com )
– researching his grandfather’s initial service with the 16th Battalion –
Canadian Scottish and later with the 1st Division HQ as a cartographer and
machine gun officer; researcher for the Russell Legion Branch 372 memorial
project to identify and catelogue all service members listed on the five
cenotaphs in Russell township – Russell, Embrun, Limoges, Vars and Casselman.
Other COBWFA members please send a one sentence description of your interests
to the
WEBTEAM by email or leave a note at the next meeting.
Honourary COBWFA Members
Here are some of the people who have really helped our COBWFA members with
their remembering projects. At our 2002 Annual General Meeting, the members
voted to make them Honourary COBWFA members.
Voici une partie du peuple qui ont vraiment aidé nos membres de COBWFA avec
leurs projets se rappelants. Lors de notre assemblée 2002 générale ordinaire,
les membres ont voté pour lui faire les membres honorifiques de COBWFA.
(Translation from Alta Vista online)
- Chairman: Marc Pilot
- Vice chairman: Jean Goux
- Treasurer: Jean-Michel Longuemart
- Secretary: Catherine Chaumeil
- Executive Members: Jean et Brigitte Mroz, Jacques et Monique Delmail,
Serge Lambert, Jean Noblet (Vet's colour-bearer), Robert et Anne-Marie
Desseaux, Jeanine Goux.
- "Friends": Monsieur le Marquis de Thézy (owner of Gentelles and Mametz
wood) - unfortunately he passed away late 2009, Monsieur Bereins (owner of Hamon Wood and Moreuil Wood).
Note that Captain Jean Mroz (retired) is also the Mayor of Aubercourt.
Professor Marc Pilot (pilot2@tiscali.fr) is the author of the book Les Brumes
de Picardie - Moreuil 1918 that was published in 2002.
Other Honorary COBWFA Members
- Mr. Jim Connell, chairman Branch 178 Royal Canadian Legion - in
Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada
- Mr. George Kingsley Ward.
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