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      <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>The founder 
      of the Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel William Charles Gordon Armstrong, was 
      a true western pioneer. He was born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England in 
      1866 and apprenticed as a tea-tester before coming to Canada in 1892 due 
      to health reasons.&nbsp; He had married Evelyn Eddy in 1887, and their child 
      William Frances accompanied him to Canada.&nbsp; The climate agreed with him, 
      and he spent many years surveying northwest of the young new city of 
      Calgary, and eventually became employed by the Imperial Life Insurance 
      Company of Canada.&nbsp; He was engaged in numerous other enterprises, 
      investing largely in real estate and erecting the Armstrong block in 1904.</small></font></p>
      <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>From 1902 to 
      1904, Armstrong served as a City Councillor, and his work on the street 
      numbering system and electrical lighting system is felt to this day.&nbsp; 
      According to the City of Calgary's official website, the city &quot;is also 
      indebted to him for the beginning of municipal ownership.&quot;</small></font></p>
      <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>Militarily, 
      he joined the Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1903 - a Militia unit - and later 
      joined the 15th Light Horse.&nbsp;&nbsp; Not satisfied, he petitioned and was 
      ultimately responsible for the raising of the 103rd Regiment (Calgary 
      Rifles, and toasted his new regiment on the 1st of April 1910.</small></font><font color="#000000"><br>
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      <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>In 1914, he 
      helped recruit five hundred men for the newly formed 10th Battalion, and 
      he later raised the 56th Battalion CEF, going overseas in March 1915.&nbsp; In 
      mid 1918, </small></font><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial">
      Armstrong </font><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><small>was invalided 
      home.&nbsp; He commanded the 103rd until 1916.</small></font></p>
      <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000">According 
      to the City of Calgary website: &quot;Lieutenant Colonel Armstrong's post-War 
      endeavours included a directorship for several years at the Calgary 
      Building Society; the ultimate result of which was the Armstrong Block 
      which the Colonel had built himself. He also served as Vice-President with 
      Alberta Financial Brokers Limited. In the 1940's, he was President at the 
      Calgary branch of the Alberta Motor Association for seven terms and 
      continued to be involved in it's organization up until the end of that 
      decade. As a pioneer motorist, he did much to promote the improvement of 
      Provincial roads.&quot;</font></p>
      <p align="justify"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial">Other 
      endeavors included being Vice President of the Calgary Building Society, 
      Vice President of Al-Azhar Building Company, Vice President of Alberta 
      Financial Brokers Limited, Secretary-Treasurer of Woodcraft's Limited, a 
      member of the Board of Trade, Secretary of the Alberta Provincial Rifle 
      Association, Secretary of the Liberal Association, the founded of the 
      Municipal Lighting Company, and Chairman of the fire, water and light 
      committee.<br>
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      Armstrong died on the 6th of February 1951.</font><p align="justify"><b>
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        <em><strong><small>William Ashton Cockshutt</small></strong></em></font><p align="justify">
        <font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>William Ashton Cockshutt was 
        born in 1892, the eldest son of a long standing member of the Canadian 
        Parliament from&nbsp; Brantford, Ontario. &nbsp; James Cockshutt, his uncle, was 
        the founder of the famous western Canadian Cockshutt Plow Company.</small></font></p>
        <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>Ashton was 
        diagnosed with serious asthma; at age fourteen, he was not expected to 
        live past the age of twenty and doctors recommended he move to Western 
        Canada. A move to a farm near Calgary,&nbsp; improved his health, and the 
        went on to attend Western Canada College, where, according to the 
        Calgary Highlanders Museum website, &quot;he was introduced to the values of 
        a military lifestyle.&quot;</small></font></p>
        <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>In 1909, he 
        entered the Calgary office of the family business while also joining the 
        103rd Calgary Rifles as a private.&nbsp; He was later commissioned as an 
        officer, and in 1914 went to Camp Valcartier with the first contingent 
        of volunteers for the newly forming 10th Battalion.</small></font></p>
        <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>Ashton saw 
        much action in Europe, fighting at the first major Canadian battle 
        (Second Ypres in April 1915), then Festubert and Givenchy, where he was 
        wounded.&nbsp; He was returned to Brantford, Ontario where he joined the 
        125th Battalion and was promoted to Captain, proceeding overseas again 
        with the 125th and being promoted major.</small></font></td>
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      <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>The Calgary 
  Highlanders Museum tells us: &quot;In the fall of 1918, he returned to the Calgary 
  office of the Cockshutt Plow Co. and rejoined the 10th Battalion. Ashton was 
  one of three Officers who assisted in the formation of the Calgary 
  Highlanders. Cockshutt remained a Highlander until 1922, when he was 
  transferred to Edmonton with the Cockshutt Plow Co.. He held senior positions 
  within the company and with other large corporations.&nbsp; William Ashton 
  Cockshutt was one of the few Officers to serve in all three Regiments which 
  perpetuate the Calgary Highlanders. He lived to be ninety-seven, a remarkable 
  feat for a boy not expected to live past the age of twenty.&quot;</small></font></p>
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        <font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>Private Donald Fraser, of the 
        31st (Alberta) Battalion tells us in his journal of at least one NCO of 
        the 103rd who served overseas:</small></font></p>
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        <font color="#003300" face="Arial"><em><small>The way 
        our old soldiers, physical drill instructors, bayonet fighting 
        instructors disappeared under the stress of battle to realms of easier 
        work was a great disappointment to us. To instance a few cases. When the 
        31st became a battalion, the Regt. Sgt.-Maj. was a man named B__. He was 
        one of the mainstays of the 103rd Calgary Rifles and naturally 
        interested in military work. He was very insistent that we smarten up 
        and be soldiers. His part of soldiering, however, was spent in England. 
        He took good care to stay on the safe side of the Channel. As Sgt.-Maj. 
        of our company--a hero of a hundred fights you would fancy him to be if 
        you listened to his conversation--he wore four ribbons for service in 
        Africa, Egypt and the Sudan and was a faddist on bayonet fighting. In 
        England, he used to tap his side gently and remark that this, alluding 
        to his revolver, was for N.C.O.s who refused to go over the top. I only 
        saw this fire-eater pay a visit to the trenches once. I gave him the 
        periscope to look through. He was very uneasy and had a half-hearted 
        glance through it, slinking back to H'Qrs. a few minutes afterwards. 
        This seasoned warrior obtained a commission and in addition managed to 
        get back to Canada. I noticed his picture very nearly the central figure 
        in a group of War Veterans, taken before their quarters on 9th Ave., 
        Calgary. </small></em></font></p>
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        <small>Sergeant William Dalton Buck</small></em></strong></font></p>
        <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>Other men 
        of the 103rd Calgary Rifles served in Canada as prison guards.&nbsp; William 
        Dalton Buck was born on the Isle of Wight, Southampton, England on the 
        12th of December 1859 and married in January 1878, aged eighteen.&nbsp; His 
        wife, Augusta Emma Jesse, aged 21 at the time of their wedding, bore him 
        ten children. &nbsp; Both his father and father in law were tailors, but Buck 
        worked as a plumber, spending his spare time painting seascapes and also 
        taking to the stage as a comedian and singer.&nbsp; He came to Canada two or 
        three years before the outbreak of the Great War with his wife and 
        family, excepting his eldest son who stayed in England.</small></font></p>
        <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>After the 
        outbreak of war, Buck became a Sergeant in the 103rd Calgary Rifles, at 
        the age of 57 he was too old for war service. &nbsp; Instead, he became 
        assigned to a prison camp set up near Castle Mountain in the Rockies.&nbsp; 
        This was a tented camp for both enemy prisoners taken in action in 
        France and Flanders, as well as internees (largely of Ukrainian 
        heritage) taken from the civil population in Canada.&nbsp; In winter, the 
        prisoners were moved to warmer barracks near Banff.&nbsp; When the prisoners 
        were moved to Kapuskasing, Buck moved with them (taking his wife along).</small></font></p>
        <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>Sergeant 
        Buck left an interesting photographic record of his experiences in the 
        camp, though other details of life has not been documented either by 
        guards or prisoners, and is a chapter of Canadian history largely 
        unwritten.&nbsp; It is not known how many other soldiers of the 103rd 
        Regiment (Calgary Rifles) were employed in local internment and prison 
        camps.</small></font></p>
        <p align="justify"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><small>Buck's 
        photos can be seen in the book <u><strong>In My Charge: the Canadian 
        Internment Camp Photographs of Sergeant William Buck</strong></u></small></font>
        <small><font face="Arial">� 1997 Lubomyr Y Luciuk and Borys Sydoruk ISBN 
        1-896354-14-9 </font></small></font><font color="#000000" face="Arial">
        <small>A copy of the album is also kept in the collection of the Whyte 
        Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff, Alberta.</small></font> &nbsp;<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial"><small><small>Information 
        and image&nbsp; in this section found at </small></small></font><small>
        <small><font face="Arial">
        <a href="http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/booklet03/" target="main">
        <font color="#000000">
        http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/booklet03/</font></a></font></small></small></font></td>
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        <small>Sergeant Walter Elliott Murray Goodfellow</small></em></strong></font></p>
        <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>One of the 
        first volunteers for overseas service among the 103rd Calgary Rifles was 
        Walter Goodfellow.&nbsp; Serving as an NCO in 1914, by the time of the St. 
        Julien fighting, he was a sergeant in the 10th Battalion.</small></font></p>
        <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>According 
        to the battalion historian, Daniel Dancocks, about a dozen men were 
        never found after the fight at Kitcheners' Wood on 22-23 April 1915.&nbsp; 
        Sergeant Goodfellow was among them, and his name is inscribed on the 
        Menin Gate, a tribute to 55,000 dead Commonwealth soldiers who have no 
        known grave.</small></font></p>
        <p align="justify"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><small>Goodfellow 
        had been born, like many of the initial volunteers for the Canadian 
        Expeditionary Force, in the United Kingdom, specifically Edinburgh, 
        Scotland.&nbsp; He listed his date of birth as 12 June 1893, making him just 
        shy of 22 years of age when he was killed.&nbsp; His prewar occupation was 
        carpenter, and his next of kin lived at 130 Garden Crescent in Calgary. 
        &nbsp; His attestation was dated 23 September 1914, and was signed by &quot;Lt Col 
        R L Boyle, OC 10th Batt&quot;.</small></font></td>
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        <small><strong><small>Sergeant Walter Goodfellow</small></strong></small><br>
        <small><small>Photographed as a Corporal of the 103rd Calgary Rifles in 
        June 1914</small></small></font></td>
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