George Dalziel

 Port Coquitlam Honour Roll

George Dalziel  131^st Battalion "D"    Signed his attestation papers on the 28^th of February 1916 at New Westminster.  790737  stated that he was a  plumber; born on the 6^th of September 1879 at  Wishaw , Lanarkshire, Scotland.  He was active in the 104^th Regiment.  Home: was in Port Coquitlam, then it was crossed out, now Vancouver; but his wife continued to live in Port Coquitlam, and later moved to Vancouver..
  WIFE: Katharine Napier, Catherine Dalziel ( 1886 – 1955 )
George Dalziel died on the 5^th of September 1971 at the Shaughnessy Hospital, Vancouver. buried at Ocean View Cemetery, Burnaby, B.C.  He had lived in B.C. for 60 years, and was living at that time at 3407 East 45^th Ave., Vancouver.  He had retired in 1940. DAUGHTER:  Elizabeth Flockhart "Parsons",( 1912-1987 ).

131^st Battalion, No.14 platoon

Top Row: G. Brown, Percy Gibb, Hosford Franklin Nagle, Leslie Lemuel Evans Goldsmith, William Gower, S. Brown, John Simon Whittaker, James Alvin Scott, J. Gourlay, F. Jackson, P.J. Leidmeier, Frederick Harvard.
Second Row: Marmaduke George Bateman, Ralph Wellington Atkinson, Herbert William Henry, Harry Gower, J. Walker, John Gleave, James Arthur Hayne, Joseph Ladoux, William Perry Patten, J. Stewart, D. Dougherty,(David or Daniel Dougherty).
Third Row: George Dalziel, J. MacKenzie, Justin Dorr, G. Williams, John Henry Griffiths, William Henry Lawrence, A. Henderson, Ernest Turner, Wilfred Harold Coleman, Walter John Wigmore, Edward Cadenhead, Abe Denson.
Fourth Row: Albert Richard Eden, David Gillies, James Glass, William Herbert Simpson, F. Grant, Ernest Austen, James Joseph Shea, Roy Torrence Hildebrand, Martin Marin Beadle, James Lyall Goldsmith.
Front Row: Corporal Harry Carter, Company Sergeant Major Richard Arthur Henderson, Lieutenant Vyvyan Chard Brimacombe, Lieutenant Keith Campbell MacGowan, Company Quartermaster Sergeant Leslie George Rayner, Sergeant Edward Groves, Corporal Robert Albert Victor Cheale, Bugler Victor Thomas Crispin.

1911 census:  South Vancouver:  Finds George staying with kates brother  James Napier,(1874 - 1930)  who was the plumbing inspector 

SERVICE RECORD: George and Katherine were  married on the 28^th of April 1911 at Edinburgh, Scotland.  He was serving in the 30^th battalion. Came down with influenza.  He received a severe concussion, which caused him deafness, and chronic tinnitus caused by the war.  George served  his country for three years.

Wilfred Harold Coleman

Central School honour roll

Wilfred Harold Coleman  131^st Battalion, 158^th Battalion. 790559
   Signed his attestation papers on the 7th of February 1916  at New Westminster, B.C. He worked as an electrician Wilfred was born on the 29th of April 1896 at Boissevain, Manitoba. He was living in Port Coquitlam with his wife, Caroline  Martha Elizabeth Baird ( 1898 – 1960 ) they were married in 1916 at New Westminster  he was working as an electrician at this time.

Children of Wilfred and Caroline:

Dorothy Margaret Caroline "McChesney" ( 1916 - 1962         )
      she was married to  Joseph George McChesney
Marshall David Coleman ( 1920 - 1964 ) married to Joyce Estelle Merrick
Possibly more children to be found..

His previous military service was with the 158^th Battalion, 104^th Regiment, for a period of sixteen months. 
     His parents were: Robert John Coleman 1873 – 1940 & Margaret Cecilia Meakin  1879 - 1965
They had numerous children see the other two Coleman entries on this blog, both are brothers of Wilfred.

Service Record:  He was designated as medically unfit on the 19^th of September 1916 at the Vernon Camp.  He was previously for one month in the 158^th Battalion from the 6^th of January 1916 to the 6^th of February 1916, then in the 131^st Battalion from February until September 1916.  He was having troubles with abdominal pain, from a previous appendix operation.     He tried to serve his country.

Wilfred  died on the 14^th of May 1968 at the Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, B.C. at the age of 67.  He had retired in 1960 and was living at 2212 Hawthorne Avenue, Port Coquitlam.

No. 14 Platoon( photo from the 131st Battalion year book, 1916 )

Top Row: G. Brown, Percy Gibb, Hosford Franklin Nagle, Leslie Lemuel Evans Goldsmith, William Gower, S. Brown, John Simon Whittaker, James Alvin Scott, J. Gourlay, F. Jackson, P.J. Leidmeier, Frederick Harvard.
Second Row: Marmaduke George Bateman, Ralph Wellington Atkinson, Herbert William Henry, Harry Gower, J. Walker, John Gleave, James Arthur Hayne, Joseph Ladoux, William Perry Patten, J. Stewart, D. Dougherty,(David or Daniel Dougherty).
Third Row: George Dalziel, J. MacKenzie, Justin Dorr, G. Williams, John Henry Griffiths, William Henry Lawrence, A. Henderson, Ernest Turner, Wilfred Harold Coleman, Walter John Wigmore, Edward Cadenhead, Abe Denson.
Fourth Row: Albert Richard Eden, David Gillies, James Glass, William Herbert Simpson, F. Grant, Ernest Austen, James Joseph Shea, Roy Torrence Hildebrand, Martin Marin Beadle, James Lyall Goldsmith.
Front Row: Corporal Harry Carter, Company Sergeant Major Richard Arthur Henderson, Lieutenant Vyvyan Chard Brimacombe, Lieutenant Keith Campbell MacGowan, Company Quartermaster Sergeant Leslie George Rayner, Sergeant Edward Groves, Corporal Robert Albert Victor Cheale, Bugler Victor Thomas Crispin.

Samuel Brown

Port Coquitlam

( Sam is not on the official Honour Roll, but he should be )

Samuel Brown, Sam Brown  131^st Battalion  791031  Signed his attestation papers on the 12^th of April 1916, at Vancouver, B.C.  Home was Port Coquitlam, where he was working as a logger.  Born on the 24^th of March 1876 ( NOT the correct year ) near Belfast, Ireland.
Brother: George Brown, of Castle Green, Comber, Ireland.
Service record:  France 16½ months with the 4^th Labour Battalion. 

      He was discharged from service on the 18^th of November 1918 at Victoria, B.C., after 31 months of service.  It appears that his true age was discovered, and he was discharged as unfit because there was a law that retired anyone who was overage.

      In January of 1919 he is back in Port Coquitlam, for a short time.  One of the records states that he was born in 1867, and he was 51 years of age, in 1918.

No. 14 Platoon( photo from the 131^st Battalion yearbook of 1916 )

Top Row: G. Brown, Percy Gibb, Hosford Franklin Nagle, Leslie Lemuel Evans Goldsmith, William Gower, Samuel Brown, John Simon Whittaker, James Alvin Scott, J. Gourlay, F. Jackson, P.J. Leidmeier, Frederick Harvard.
Second Row: Marmaduke George Bateman, Ralph Wellington Atkinson, Herbert William Henry, Harry Gower, J. Walker, John Gleave, James Arthur Hayne, Joseph Ladoux, William Perry Patten, J. Stewart, D. Dougherty,(David or Daniel Dougherty).
Third Row: George Dalziel, J. MacKenzie, Justin Dorr, G. Williams, John Henry Griffiths, William Henry Lawrence, A. Henderson, Ernest Turner, Wilfred Harold Coleman, Walter John Wigmore, Edward Cadenhead, Abe Denson.
Fourth Row: Albert Richard Eden, David Gillies, James Glass, William Herbert Simpson, F. Grant, Ernest Austen, James Joseph Shea, Roy Torrence Hildebrand, Martin Marin Beadle, James Lyall Goldsmith.
Front Row: Corporal Harry Carter, Company Sergeant Major Richard Arthur Henderson, Lieutenant Vyvyan Chard Brimacombe, Lieutenant Keith Campbell MacGowan, Company Quartermaster Sergeant Leslie George Rayner, Sergeant Edward Groves, Corporal Robert Albert Victor Cheale, Bugler Victor Thomas Crispin.

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His parents were Samuel Brown, and Margaret Jane Anderson

Children of:

Elizabeth Brown  born:19 June 1866 Holywood, Down, Ireland   ( NE of Belfast )
Agnes Brown       born: 10 Feb. 1864 Comber, County Down, Ireland
Jane Brown          born: 9 Jan. 1869 County Down, Ireland
Samuel Brown     born: 8 Oct. 1871 Castlereagh, County Down
Sarah Brown         born: 10 Nov. 1872 Castlereagh, Down, Ireland (  SSE of Belfast )
Samuel Brown      born: 24 March 1875   Down, Ireland
Hugh Brown          born: 3 Oct. 1880 Unicarville, Ballymaglaff, County Down, Ireland
  
1901 census    house 10  in castle lane, Comber, County Down, Ireland
Finds : Agnes ; Jane, and Sarah  listed as working in a flax mill. And their widowed mother, Margaret Jane Brown, age 57; and Robert Brown 17, working as an apprentice carpenter
  

   Samuel Brown 781031
( not dated, from the Find-a-grave website )

Grave marker in Veterans section of the Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster
( photo from the Find-a-grave website )

The description about Samuel Brown at the Find-a-grave website is correct for the most part, but one main error is the fact that Samuel actually worked as a gardener for the Pacific Mills at Ocean Falls, B.C., from at least 1925 to 1946, in 1947 he was admitted to Essondale, where he spent the last seven years of his life.
Samuel Brown died on the 5^th of August 1954 at Essondale hospital, Coquitlam, B.C., at the age of 88; he had spent 44 years of his life in B.C., and 22 years elsewhere in Canada.   See also the Bowell & Sons obituary card for Sam Brown
Note: on the Find-a-grave site, the researcher states that Sam immigrated in 1887 and worked in the northern wilds of B.C. as a logger, and that he was born in 1865 (which is what the death certificate states, which does not align correctly with the Irish birth certificates in the LDS database.

Also the family appears to have had ties to Comber, in County Down, Ireland, they are mentioned a few times in some of the Comber History website texts.