MilitaryArmyTransport27Dec1915n4jp0632

Calgary Herald

27 Dec 1915

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ARMY TRANSPORT MEN HAVE LEFT CALGARY

Thirty-Five Recruits For Active Service Are Off to the Front

Thirty-five imperial army transport workers recruited in Calgary and district have left for the front. The men were in charge of Acting-Sergt. H. G. Hilliard, a Kelowna, B. C. man, who a short time ago came through to Calgary to join one of the earliest battalions leaving for active service. They left with a detachment from the coast, which also included 100 Pioneers.

The men from Calgary were Acting-Sergt. H. G. Hilliard, F. H. Wolley-Dod, S. J. Horne, F. J. Prendergast, A. E. Twist, H. L. Mitchell, G. H .Adair, H. W. Clein, C. T. McDougall, A. M. Ward, J. J. Limpens, W. J. Shaw, E. A. Harwood, W. Y. Findlay, J. H. Armstrong, J. Connon, H. S. Cross, C. Chambers, M. L. Fraser, J. B. Halifax, F. T. Laine, R. H. Jackson, W. Wellin, H. C. Anderson, D. G. Richardson, B. Richardson, R. E. Townsley, R. H. Scott, Jr., H. R. G. Craufurd, D. D. Duffield, G. G. McGill, G. S. Hague, E. H. Weston, M. L. Draper, and M. D. Wilkinson.

Hearty Send off

The men were accorded a hearty send-off by a large number of their relations and friends gathered at the station. They had all been very carefully selected and are all experts.
Enlistment is being continued by Lieut. Johnson at the recruiting office, opposite The Herald's bulletin board on First street west.