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New Officers for 191st Battalion recruiting at Macleod, Alberta.

The Lethbridge Daily Herald


Dated: May 20, 1916

NEW OFFICERS FOR MACLEOD BATTALION

Calgary, May 19. -- Officers and non-coms. of the 103rd regiment are receiving appointments with the new 191st battalion, C.E.F., being recruited at Macleod under Lieut.-Col. W. C. Bryan. The latest appointment made public is that of Capt. B. Y. Jackson of A company, 103rd regiment. He will take command of one of the companies of the 191st. Capt. F. De Roussey will take charge of A company after the departure of Capt. Jackson.

More appointments to the staff of the 191st have been made and included in the list are G. P. O. Fenwick1, formerly deputy attorney general of the province of Alberta and Victor Bowes, chief clerk in the passenger department of the C.P.R. in Calgary.


1Lieut. George Paget Owen Fenwick, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, died 30 October 1917 at Passchendaele and is remembered on the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium. 


Transcribed by: M. I. Pirie