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6th Canadian Mounted Rifles Regiment, Nominal Roll 1915 (July 17, 1915)

Author: Canadian Expeditionary Force
Keywords: Canada; War; Great War; Militia; CEF; CEFSG; World War One; WWI; WW1; Nominal Rolls; 6th Canadian Mounted Rifles; 6th CMR; 8th Infantry Brigade; 3rd Division; rlaughton; cwight
Publisher: Minister of Militia and Defence
Year: 1915
Language: English
Book contributor: Richard Laughton on behalf of Chris Wight
Collection: opensource
Notes: The Nominal Rolls of the Canadian Expeditionary Force are described by Library and Archives Canada as the "lists of soldiers on strength with the unit on a particular date. They were generally created in the course of a unit's formation in Canada, often in preparation for departure overseas. Five copies of nominal rolls (army form MFW 20) were to be prepared by the regimental adjutant. Two were submitted to the headquarters of the Military District in which the unit was raised (one of which was to be forwarded to the Department of Militia and Defence in Ottawa). Three were to accompany the unit overseas. The first page was to contain a list of officers, arranged in order of rank. Other ranks followed on succeeding pages, arranged in alphabetical order, showing full name, rank, and regimental number." A number of additional documents pertaining to the 6th Canadian Mounted Rifle Regiment are on file at Library and Archives Canada, including their War Diary. The CEF Matrix Project Fluid ORBAT (Order of Battle) shows the 6th C.M.R. served in France with the 2nd Mounted Rifle Brigade in 1915 and 1916, when it was disbanded on reorganization of the 6th Canadian Mounted Rifle Battalion which itself was absorbed into the 4th and 5th C.M.R., 8th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Canadian Division. CEF Study Group Web Site: http://www.cefresearch.com/phpBB2/ CEF Matrix Project: http://www.cefresearch.com/matrix

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This is one in a series of CEF Nominal Rolls made available by members of the "Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group" (CEFSG) from their private collections. The CEFSG studies the Canadian Army in the Great War (1914-1919)and are making this information available to their world wide counter-parts that are also studying the CEF in the Great War. This particular document was provided by Chris Wight and it contains the initial Nominal Roll of the 6th Canadian Mounted Rifle Regiment on July 17, 1915.

This Nominal Roll identifies the Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the 6th Canadian Mounted Rifle Regiment. Details are provided in the notes that follow. For further information, please see the details posted at the "Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group - Matrix Project" (http://cefresearch.com/matrix/).

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