The First World War
Officers of The Royal Canadian Regiment

Lieut. Newton Frank McCormack

Soldiers of the First World War database entry - Lieut. N.F. McCormack

Service:

• Attested for service with the 140th Overseas Battalion, C.E.F., 28 Jan 1916; regimental number 817728
• Sailed from Canada, 23 Sep 1916
• Arrived in France to The R.C.R., 20 Dec 1916
• Transferred to England for Commission, 28 Jan 1918
• Gazetted Lieut., 9 Jun 1918
• Taken on strength on arrival from Engand
• Joined The R.C.R. from C.C.R.C., 17 Sep 1918
• Courses:
• Musketry
• Machine Gun
• First Aid
• Physical Training & Bayonet Fighting
• Wiring & Entrenching
• Bombing
• Anti-Gas-Drill
• Revlver
• O.T.C. Bexhill

Date of Birth - 23 Apr 1894

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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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