The First World War
Officers of The Royal Canadian Regiment

Major Adrian Aloysius Sherwood Law

Soldiers of the First World War database entry - A.A.S. Law

Service:

• Prior service: Canadian Militia, Captain; 1904 - Jan 1906
• Regimental Service, The RCR: 1906 - 1919
• Attached for duty with The R.C.R., Jan 1906 to April 1906
• Appointed to The R.C.R., 3 Apr 1906
• Lieut., No. 4 Depot, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1911
• Captain, Nov 1910
• Capt., Wellington Barracks, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1912
• First World War - British War Medal, Victory Medal.
• Major, Sep, 1915
• Joined The RCR overseas, 21 Jun 1916
• To Field Ambulance, 6 Aug 1916
• Evacuated to C.C.S., 6 Aug 1916
• Invalided and transferred to England, 11 Aug 1916
• Struck off strength of The R.C.R. in France.
• SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 12 MAY, 1917.; The undermentioned temp. Capts. to be temp. Majs.: 16 Sept. 1915. - A.A.S. Law

Armorial families : a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour (1905)

Adrian Aloysius Sherwood Law, Esq., Major (ret.) R.C.R.I., b. 1885; m. 1914, Maud, d. of Hon. N. A. Andette, Judge of Exchequer Court, Canada, and has issue - Charles Anthony Francis Law, Gentleman, b. 1916 ; Adrian Augustus Stewart Law, Gentleman, b. 1918. Res. - 2 Learmoth Avenue, Quebec.

Date of Birth - 18 Sep 1885

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