Milton Soldiers

This page last updated on January 02, 2010 04:50 PM

Victoria Park Cenotaph

Haltonville Cenotaph

Victoria Park, Milton
Google Earth Project

The research work on Milton Soldiers was started in the form of a Web Blog (http://miltonsoldiers.blogspot.com), developed as part of a national program to honour community soldiers in the Great War This was completed in conjunction with the Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group (CEFSG), starting in 2005.

The Blog was developed as part of the 2006 Remembrance Project by MHS member Richard Laughton. The basic structure was updated as part of the 2007 Remembrance Project for the Victoria Park Cenotaph, to include details of the units where the soldiers served and died, as well as the battles they fought. The 2008 Project, has added all of the soldiers on the Haltonville Cenotaph. We have now completed the soldiers, reported to be from Milton or to have connections with Milton, that are not on either of the cenotaphs.

Considerably more detail has now been added to the individual soldier files, with hyperlinks to most of their on-line records in Canada and Europe. Where possible, we have added information that tells not only where they died, but how they died, and what the historical records tell us of the battles at that time. You can now "fly" to many of the soldier's grave sites using Google Earth (see information below).

Grave site photos have now bee retrieved from Evergreen Cemetery in Milton, Ebenezer Cemetery in Nassagaweya, and Woodlawn Cemetery in Guelph (photos by Richard Laughton). Grave site photographs from a wide selection of Military Cemeteries in France and Flanders have also been provided by the Maple Leaf Legacy Project (courtesy of Steve Douglas, Ypres Belgium).

Shortly after the release of the Milton Soldiers to "Google Earth" it was upgraded by the Moderators to a "History Illustrated - Moderated" status, with the highest possible rating of 5 stars! The new tour on Google Earth will take you to the cemeteries in Canada and Europe where Milton's soldiers are buried. To take the tour, follow this link and the instructions. If you are not familiar with Google Earth, contact us for instructions.

Milton's Soldiers on Google Earth

Details of Milton's Soldiers on this Web Site

In May 2009 the MHS received the "Turner Collection" of Attestation Papers of all Milton Soldiers. Please click on the Turner Link or Folder for additional details.

In the section on the WWI Soldier Details you will find information of a number of Milton Soldiers that made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War of 1914-1919.

We also encourage you to read the story of Milton in the Great War as described in "Milton Remembers World War I - The Men and Women We Never Knew" by John Challinor II and Jim Dills, edited by Ken Lamb, available at the Milton Historical Society at 16 James Street, Milton. The book contains extensive details on the war years in Milton, the men and women who served and survived, the local 164th Infantry Battalion, and numerous photos of the men, women and events of that era.

To the right, is one of the new photographs that has been submitted since the book was published in the fall of 2006. Shown here is Private Howard Challen Robertson of the 38th Infantry Battalion. Check his details on the list of soldiers who perished and are named on the Cenotaph in Victoria Park, Milton.

In addition, we have received correspondence from the family of Private Hugh Sinclair, including the two pictures shown to the right (click them for full scale). The corrections submitted, as well as some of the new history has been added to Private Sinclair's personal page.

The Milton Soldiers' Project has also been expanded in connection with the Maple Leaf Legacy Project, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Department of Defence National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials. On these web sites you will soon find the grave site photographs of the Milton Soldiers and the updated names and photographs of all the local memorials, all of which were incomplete. The CWGC site now contains photographs for the cemeteries in Milton Evergreen, Nassagaweya Ebenezer and Guelph Woodlawn, taken as part of this project. For all these years there had been no photographs submitted.

Private Howard Challen Robinson
38th Infantry Battalion

Private Hugh Sinclair
KIA on the Somme 1916

Private Sinclair 3rd from left
24th Battalion in France

Milton Historical Society

Milton's Soldiers on Google Earth

click here to go to the list of soldiers