The First World War
Officers of The Royal Canadian Regiment

Lieut. William Parker Littlewood

Soldiers of the First World War database entry - W.P. Littlewood

Service:

• Enlisted 33rd Huron Regment, Goderich, Ontario, 17 Aug 1914
• Transferred to The R.C.R. as a private, 5 Sep 1914, regimental number 16208
• Appointed Lance Corporal, 1 Sep 1915
• Attested for overseas service with The R.C.R., C.E.F. regimental number (tbc)
• Arrived in France, 1 Nov 1915
• Promoted Corporal, 29 Nov 1915
• Appointed Orderly Room Clerk (O.R.C.), 19 Mar 1916
• Promoted Sergeant (O.R.C.), 27 Jul 1916
• Duty Sergeant 1 Sep 1916
• Commissioned, 25 Dec 1916
• Wounded in action, 28 Mar 1917
• Invalided to England, 1 Apr 1917
• Returned to France, 1 Apr 1918
• Courses:
• Anti-Gas, Aldershot
• General Course, Chelsea
• Appointed Adjutant, Canadian Corps School, 30 Jun 1918
• Rejoined The R.C.R. from C.C.R.C., 27 Jul 1918

Date of Birth - 4 Dec 1893 at Leicestershire, England

Date of Death - 17 Jul 1986 at Manatee, FL

• The O'Leary Collection; Medals of The Royal Canadian Regiment.
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 The RCR in the Great War
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 Battle Bars and The RCR
 The RCR Battle Bar Ledger (pdf)

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 Honours and Awards
 Roll of Honour
 Prisoners of War
 Cemetery List
 Cemetery Map
 Courts Martial

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 Officers
 RSMs of The RCR (1914-1919)
 NCOs and Soldiers

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 An Officer's Diary (1914-1918)
 Recollections of a Nonagenerian (R. England) (1916-1919)
 On to Bermuda (1914-15)
  England and France 1915-1916 (Hayes; 1931)
 Overseas with The Royals (1915)
 Regimental History Pamphlet (1917)
 Amiens (1918)
 Cambrai (1918)
 Monchy-le-Preux (1918)

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 Badges - Signs of the Times

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 Under-aged Soldiers in The RCR
 Not All Were Volunteers; The RCR and the Military Service Act
 Sentenced to Death by Court Martial
 The 7th Trench Mortar Battery
 A Regimental Goat
 Regiment and Family, Bermuda 1914-15
 "March the Guilty Bastard In"
 Surrendered as Stowaway
 Re-Visiting the Great War Roll of Honour for The RCR

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 Canadian Corps Trench Standing Orders (1916)

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