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Grandson and grandnephew of Ian and Angus MacDonald, both
15th Battalion pipers, visits the CANDIGN souterrain
exhibit in Ottawa 2016.
Grandson of Private Edward Wickham who was wounded at 2nd Ypres on 1915, attend the 15th Battalion Memorial Project’s service at the memorial in St. Julien commemorating the 100th anniversary of the battle. April 24, 2015.
Robert Duncan of Scotland visit’s his granduncle’s grave in NineElms Cemetery on the Centenary of Vimy ridge in April 1917. Private Robert Duncan was KIA on April 9, 1917 and his name is on the 15th Battalion’s Vimy cross.
The Gibson family with members of the 15th battalion Memorial Project and Field Marshall Haig’s Own Pipes & Drums, visit the grave of their relative 15th battalion Lieutenant Frank Gibson on the centenary of his death at Hill 63 on August 19, 1915.
Menin Gate buglers and a Ieper City official lay a wreath
in Cemetery at the grave of Private M.A. Cameron KIA at
Passchendaele in 1917 during the Centenary of the battle in November 2017.
Lieutenant
Maxwell Scott was wounded leading No. 11 Platoon of No. 3 Company, 15th
Battalion at 2nd Ypres in April 1915. His son David and his family
visit the 15th Battalion memorial on Gravenstafel ridge on the
Centenary of the battle in April 2015.
Grandnephew of Captain Edward Botterill, 15th Battalion, at the 2010 dedication of the Gravenstafel Ridge memorial where his relative served in the 1915 battle of 2nd Ypres
The descendants of 15th Battalion Lieutenant
Frank Gibson lay a wreath in his memory at the Menin Gate. August
1915.
Joan Topp touches the name of her relative, Private
Hartley Hibberd MIA at 2nd Ypres in April 1915, on the 15th
Battalion panel on The Menin Gate.
On
the Centenary of Vimy ridge, the town of Annapolis Royal, NS re-dedicated the
town hall as part of its Vimy
Commemoration. In May 1923, Lt Col Charles Bent, Commanding Officer of the 15th
Battalion, officiated at the laying of the cornerstone of the building then
known as the Soldiers & sailors Memorial Hall – the cornerstone bears his
name. Members of the Bent family and the 15th Battalion Memorial
Project were invited to attend. L-R: Premier of NS, Bent’s granddaughter and
great granddaughter, Lt (ret) Tom Birchall and the mayor of Annapolis Royal.
April 9, 2017.
Fred Ryall and family in front of the 15th Battalion’s Vimy cross at the Vimy Visitor Education Centre during the
2017 Centenary of Vimy Ridge. Pte Charles Ryall was KIA on April 9, 1917, and his name is inscribed on the cross.
Family
members of Private Charles Ryall point of his name on the 15th
Battalion’s Vimy cross during the cross’- repatriation service in St. Andrew’s
Church April 2018.
The great grandchildren of Private Edwin Keen KIA at Vimy
in April 1917 visit the Vimy cross which bears his
name at the Regimental museum in Toronto.
15th Battalion CSM Louis DeHarte and Sergeant
William Duguid were taken as POWs during the battle of 2nd Ypres in
April 1915, and both were interned at Gottingen, Germany. Their descendants met
while attending the St, Julien centenary parade at the Regimental memorial in
Queen’s Park, Toronto on April 24, 2015. Granddaughters Barbara (left) and
Louise (right) DeHarte and grandson Kirk Duguid (centre)
Keith
and Joan Topp, relatives of Private Hartlet Hibberd KIA at 2nd Ypres
in 1915, with 15th Battalion Project Team member Captain (ret) Steve
Gilbert at the St. Julien Centenary commemorative parade at the regimental
memorial in Queen’s Park, Toronto. April 24, 2015.
Relatives from England of 15th Battalion
Private John Owens KIA at Vimy in 1917 lay a wreath at his grave in Nine Elms
Cemetery. 11 November 2019.
The Merritt family of Niagara-on-the-Lake, On,
descendants of Private Orlando, in front of which bears his
name at St. Andrew’s Church in Toronto during the cross’-repatriation service
in April 2018.
The
descendants of Private Edwin Keen KIA at Vimy in April 1917 in front of the 15th Battalion’s Vimy cross that bears his name during the cross’-repatriation
service at St. Andrew’s Church in April 2018.
Descendants
of Private John Owens KIA at Vimy in 1917 and whose name appears on the Vimy
cross, attend the 11 November 2019 service with Project Team member Simon Godly
and members of The Somme Battlefield Pipe Band and Ecurie town officials.
Lt Henry Botterill – at 102 years of age and the last WW1
fighter pilot – visits the grave of his brother
Captain Edward Botterill, 15th Battalion, in Lijssenhoek Military Cemetery.