The First World War
Officers of The Royal Canadian Regiment
Major Hugh Frederick Richard Griffith
Soldiers of the First World War database entry - H.F.R. Griffith
Lieut. Hugh Frederick Richard Griffith (1908)
Lieut. Hugh Frederick Richard Griffith (1910)
Lieut. Hugh Frederick Richard Griffith (1912)
Service:
- 3rd Hampshire Regt., Mar 1905 to Jul 1906
- THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 28, 1905; 3rd Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment; Hugh Frederick Richard Griffith, Gent, to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 13th March, 1905
- Joined The R.C.R., 1906
- Lieut., No. 1 Depot, Wolseley Barracks, London, Ontario, 1911
- Lieut., "K" Company, Wolseley Barracks, London, Ontario, 1912
- THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 5, 1907; 3rd Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment; Second Lieutenant H. F. R. Griffith resigns his [British Army] commission. Dated 9th February, 1907.
- Seconded to the Indian Army for 10 months, 1914
- First World War - 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
- Arrived in France, 1 Nov 1915
- To Field Ambulance, Invalided to England, 9 Jun 1916
- Courses:
- Musketry, Ottawa, 1908; Passed
- Signalling, Indian Army
- Instructors' Certificate
- Senior Officers' Bombing School, in the field, 1916
- Taken on strength as a reinforcement, 25 Jan 1918 and carried supplementary to establishment
- Joined from C.C.R.C. 11 Feb 1918
- Attached 3rd Canadian Division Signals, 26 Mar 1918
Major Hugh Frederick Richard Griffith, pictured in The Connecting File, January 1938 (the regimental journal of the Royal Canadian Regiment).
Date of Birth - 14 Nov 1885
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