Bermudians in the CEF

Many British nationals from the United Kingdom or colonies who were resident in Canada during the First World War joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, which was deployed to the Western Front. A sizeable percentage of Bermuda's volunteers who served in the war joined the CEF or the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), either because they were resident in Canada already, or because Canada was the easiest other part of the British Empire and Commonwealth to reach from Bermuda (1,239 kilometres (770 miles) from Nova Scotia). As several CEF battalions were posted to the Bermuda Garrison before proceeding to France, islanders were also able to enlist there. Although the Bermuda Militia Artillery and Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps both sent contingents to the Western Front, the first would not arrive there 'til June of 1915. By then, many Bermudians had already been serving on the Western Front in the CEF for months. Bermudians in the CEF enlisted under the same terms as Canadians. The following list, which is undoubtedly incomplete, only lists those who joined Canadian military units during the war, not those who served in the RCN, or those who joined British Army units, such as the Royal Flying Corps, in Canada without passing through nominally Canadian military units first.

NAME	RANK	UNIT	COMMENT
Adams, Karl		38th Ottawa Regiment
Anderson, Charles Adolphus	Private	10th Reserve Battalion, CEF
Astwood, Harold Frith	Private	1st Field Ambulance, Canada
Astwood, James Clifton	Private	CEF
Baker, Kenneth		CEF	Enlisted August, 1914, with four other Bermudians, including Walter Walker.
Brown, Ewart Cudemore		McGill Overseas Contingent
Barritt, Frank L.	Corporal	Ft. Garry Horse, C.E.F	Wounded, taken P.O.W. 21/1/17
Butterfield, C.N. Arthur		University of Toronto Overseas Contingent	Attached 1st Tank Battalion
Butterfield, Harry Durham	Corporal	Canadian Garrison Artillery (McGill Contingent)	Commissioned Sept., 1918, into 2nd Canadian Division Signals Company, Canadian Engineers. Meritorious Service Medal.
Burrows, Stuart Alexander	Private	Composite Battalion, CEF.	Promoted to Sergeant in 112th Battalion.
Burrows, John	Private	69th Battery, CEF	Killed 1918.
Basham, F.C.T.		28th Canadian Royal Engineers	Commissioned. Awarded Military Cross.
Conyers, Charles	Sergeant	Canadian Expeditionary Force
Cooper, Clarence	Captain	Canadian A.V.C.	Promoted Capt., 23/09/18
Cooper, W.E.		Canadian Field Artillery
Crisson, John Ethelbert		Canadian Field Artillery
Crisson, Herbert S.		Canadian Field Artillery	Older brother of above.
Curtis, Harry C.	Officer Cadet	University of Toronto Officers Training Corps	Transferred to Royal Naval Air Service. Commissioned.
Doers, Ivan	Private	163rd Battalion, CEF
Dunscombe, Howard Stanley	Gunner	Canadian Garrison Artillery
Dunstan, Norman	Private	2nd Battalion, Cyclist Corps, CEF
Down, Albert Edward	Private	28th Battalion, North-West Canadian Regiment	Awarded Military Medal, November, 1916. Promoted to Sergeant, 1 December, 1917. Specially mentioned, 1 February, 1918. Gazetted Second-Lieutenant, July, 1918.
Doe, Evelyn	Corporal	Canadian Field Artillery.	119th Infantry Battalion, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. Awarded Belgian Croix de Guerre.
Doe, Joseph Eldon	Private	Canadian Cycle Corps.
Denman, Fred. Win.	Gunner	69th Battery, CFA	Transferred to Trench Mortar Battery.
Dickins, E.C.	Gunner	69th Battery, CFA
Dickins, Eldon		Canadian Field Artillery
Dickinson, Percival Erle	Private	Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps	Died in Halifax, NS, Oct., 1918, a few weeks after enlisting. Detailed to nurse 1918 influenza patients, he caught, and died of, the disease himself.
Gray, Edmund Brownlow	Private	Canadian Expeditionary Force	Wounded, 4 October, 1918.
Harvey, Eldon	Officer Cadet		Completed O.T.C., Toronto, Canada, and resigned on 8 July, '18. Training for commission in R.G.A. in UK,September, 1918.
Harvey, Raymond	OTC, Toronto		Details same as for brother, above.
Higinbothom, Henry C.	Private	1st Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment	Previously Second-Lieutenant in the Bermuda Militia Artillery. Employed in Toronto by Bank of Montreal. Offered commossion into CEF in 1915. Conscripted 1 January, 1918. wounded, September, 1918.
Jackson, Cyril		Canadian Expeditionary Force	Enlisted August, 1914
Jackson, Lionel Arnot	Private	187th Battalion, CEF	Wounded and discharged as medically unfit.
Johnston, Harold Clifford	Private	163rd Battalion, CEF
Motyer, Arthur		Canadian Expeditionary Force	Enlisted August, 1914
Motyer, Ephraim		Canadian Field Artillery	Commissioned from the ranks.
Ratteray, William Alpheus	Private	10th Reserve Battalion, CEF
Robinson, Bryan	Captain (Adjutant)	1st Canadian Contingent, Salvation Army Battalion	Joined in 1915 as a Chaplain. Transferred to Infantry Battalion as a musketry instructor. Awarded Military Cross, for gallantry at Flanders, 1917. Killed in action, 2 September, 1918.
Robinson, W.R.	Private	Canadian Army Medical Corps
Simpson, Rae		Canadian Expeditionary Force	Enlisted August, 1914.
Smith, Wilfred Seymour	Private	Queen's Own Rifles of Canada	Enlisted August, 1914. Went to France as a Machine Gunner in 3rd Canadian Battalion (Toronto Regiment), CEF. Discharged in UK and commissioned into British Army, December, 1914.
Tucker, Edmund		1st Heavy Battery, Canadian Field Artillery	Went to France, 1914.
Tucker, Edward		Canadian Expeditionary Force	Enlisted together with Ewart Brown (above), August, 1914. Both had worked for Bank of Montreal at St. John, N.B.
Tucker, Alexander Ewing	Private	2nd Universities Company, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.	McGill University. Enlisted 20 May, 1915. Killed in action at Sanctuary Wood, serving in Eastern Ontario Regiment, 2 June, 1916.
Vallis, Alfred Hoare	Private	116th Battalion, CEF	Killed in action, 27th August, 1918.
Walker, Herman Walter		6th Regiment, Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles. 2 CEF	Commissioned Second-Lieutenant and transferred to Royal Welch Fusiliers, September, 1915. Promoted to Captain.
Wainwright, Darrell		Canadian Field Artillery
Wilkinson, Campbell		Canadian Field Artillery
Williams, Reuben C.	Private	17th Canadian Reserve Battalion
Winter, W.V. Ross	Captain	Canadian Expeditionary Force	CEF, 1914-1918. Royal Canadian Army Service Corps D.S. and T.O. Military District No. 7. St. John, New Brundswick, 1918-1924. Retired as a Captain, 23 June, 1924.