Frederick John Culliford

Coquitlam Honour roll

Frederick John Culliford  29^th Battalion, 1^st tunnelling company, 9^th Battalion, C.E.   75408   Signed his attestation papers on the 12^th of March 1915 at Vancouver, B.C.  Trade: logger. Frederick was born on the 20^th of November 1880 at Chester, Cheshire, England.   His father, Frederick Culliford, lived at the Blue Cap Inn (Today: Blue Bell Inn), Hampton Heath, Malpas, Cheshire; and his mother was Elizabeth Culliford.   Prior military service was with the Cheshire Regiment, 22^nd Battalion. 
Siblings of F.J. Culliford:
Margaret Albertina Culliford ( 1879 – ? )
Florence Elizabeth Culliford ( 1885 – ? )
Frederick David Henry Culliford (1887 – ? )
Minnie Gladys  Culliford  ( 1894 – ? )
Service Record:   states that within three-months of service in September 1915 he was found medically unfit for service, due to gonorrhoea, overcome the medical issue and continued to serve.  In his attestation he worked as a logger, but in the Service Record he is now a miner.  After the war he moved to 585 East Columbia St., New Westminster.
    After the war I only found him listed in the 1926,1927 directories; working as a grounds-man and living at 181-W.7th Vancouver.
Frederick John Culliford died on the 12th of February 1957 at St. Paul's hospital, Vancouver, B.C., he is buried in Forest Lawn cemetery, in Burnaby, B.C.  He apparently never married, and was working as a caretaker of a yacht club at Deep Cove, B.C.

Richard Cullen

Coquitlam honour roll

Richard Cullen,  Lieutenant.  121^st Battalion, B.C.R.. Captain.  524743
Signed his attestation papers on the 10^th of December 1915 at New Westminster, B.C. He was born on the 14^th of May 1882 at Margate, Kent, England.   Job:  schoolmaster. Sister: Helen Maurian Cullen, Mrs. P.C. Wood, (b.1868) Tyrone House, Margate, Kent, England.
Father: John Cullen is listed, but his father is really Thomas Cullen and his mother was Anne Bullock, and he had a brother who was also a school master: Alfred Richard Cullen ( 1880 – 1958 )
Previous military service was with the 11^th Irish Fusiliers of Canada.
Served in the 121^st Battalion in France, 16^th reserve battalion; BCR Depot; 2^nd Depot Battalion, B.C.R.; Canadian Machine Gun Depot; C.M.G. Reserve pool; 1^st Battalion, C.H.C.C.

Richard died on the 1^st of January 1967 at the Jesmond Rest Home, 668 Dallas Road, Victoria, B.C.
He  lived in the province for 55 years, with the last 21 years living in the Victoria area. He never married, and his death certificate states his birthday as the 14^th of May 1879, which differs, as usual from his attestation paper date of 1882.  He had retired in 1948, after working as an accountant for thirty years.  He is buried in the Royal Oak burial park, in Saanich, along with some more family members.  A niece: Norah Dorothea Cullen, Norah Dorothea Wagget,  gave the information used on his death certificate 

Richard first shows up in the 1913 New Westminster directory, listed as a teacher at the  Lord Kelvin School, a job he held until going overseas in August of 1916. 
By 1922 he is found back in New Westminster, working as a clerk for the Public works Department and in the 1936 directory for New Westminster he is a clerk working for the B.C. Government. Next he shows up in Victoria Directory in 1948 as a clerk with the B.C. Government, which was the year that he retired.

Lord Kelvin School with students on lawn. - [ca. 1912]
    ( photograph from the New Westminster Archives IHP7989   and 31 more images )

   This building was fairly new in this image, it replaced another one on the site, both have been torn down, but a Lord Kelvin Elementary school still exists at the same address:  1010 Hamilton Street, New Westminster, B.C.

NOTE:  It is interesting how confusing these records can be sometimes, an example is below:  A death record for a Richard Cullen who was a sergeant in the 32^nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. and he died on the 17^th of June 1917 in Belgium. the service number given 53021  is for a Stanley B. Rourke
But there are two,  Richard Cullen’s listed in the C.E.F. files, and both made it through the war and lived normal lives. But we have this mysterious other Richard Cullen.
     Threw me off for a while, thinking that the dead Richard Cullen was the person that I was interested in, until I was able to go through the actual service files, which of course continue to have notes past the date of death of the mysterious Richard Cullen.

William John Alward

Port Coquitlam Honour Roll

William John Alward  Driver in the 68^th O/S Depot Field Battery.  Attestation papers: 339089 (1) – (2)  Service File: PDF    Signed the papers on the 12^th of July 1916 in Vancouver. railroad fireman. Home: Coquitlam.  born on the 21^st of January 1892 Havelock, New Brunswick. Died on the 21^st of July 1958 at Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, B.C. William is buried in the,  Cranbrook General Cemetery. At his death home was, 121 9th Ave., Cranbrook, B.C.. And he was a locomotive fireman, for the C.P.R.

FATHER: George Chipman Alward ( 1858-1939 )
MOTHER: Alva Cusack

In 1922 at Cranbrook, William married, Margaret Elizabeth St. Eloi ( 1900 – 1970 )

DAUGHTER: Geraldine A. Holmes neé Geraldine A. Alward
SISTER: Mabel Josephine Alward, ( 1894 - )
And probably more siblings, and children.