Canadian Field Artillery
​Canadian Expeditionary Force
​1918

as at 2 October 2016

31st Battery, 9th Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery

58th Battery, 14th Brigade
​Canadian Field Artillery

68th Battery, 16 Brigade
Canadian Field Artillery
​North Russia Expeditionary Force

5th Canadian Siege Battery
Canadian Artillery

68th Depot Battery,
Canadian Field Artillery

Source: City of Vancouver Archives

Celebrating peace - 85 Battalion parade [Columbia at Begbie Street] 1918
That's the title given to this print in the City of Vancouver Archives. clearly an artillery unit, not a Battalion. Could this be 85 Battery prior to their departure to Siberia?

Obituaries

Second Lieutenant Arthur William Aird; Taken on strength 62nd Battery 15th Overseas Brigade Canadian Field Artillery as a Gunner 22 May 1916 and subsequently absorbed by 14th Brigade Canadian Field Artillery on 22 Jan 1917. He was appointed Bombardier 9 Feb 1917 and struck off strength on proceeding for the Royal Flying Corps on 13 Aug 1917. Appointed Second Lieutenant in 209th Squadron Royal Flying Corps in 1918 he died on 23 May 1918, commemorated on the  Arras Flying Services Memorial Nord-Pas-de-Calais France.

​Second Lieutenant William Jermy Jephson was born on July 5, 1886 in Winnipeg, Manitoba to parents John and Christian Jephson. The Jephson’s had four children, William, Helen, Arthur and John. By 1901, the Jephson family had moved to Calgary which was then a part of the N.W.T. As a young man, William would follow in his father’s footsteps, attending law school and becoming a barrister. On April 3, 1916, William Jephson enlisted with the 61st Battery 15th Brigade Canadian Field Artillery and was appointed Brigade Sergeant Major. BSM Jephson arrived in England on September 22, 1916 aboard the SS Cameronia. He would serve with the CFA in England until April 25, 1918, where he was discharged from Canadian service and given a commission with the 175th Brigade Royal Field Artillery. Second Lieutenant Jephson would serve with this British unit in France and Flanders for five months. On September 26, 1918, Second Lieutenant Jephson was killed in action. He was laid to rest at Athies Communal Cemetery Extension. William Jephson was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal. His mother, Christian received the Memorial Cross and death plaque in honour of her son.

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Lieutenant Claude Melnot Wilson was the son of C. K. Wilson of Vancouver, B.C., Claude Melnot Wilson served in an artillery regiment before he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in July 1917. He was posted to 29 Squadron on 4 May 1918 and scored 8 victories flying the S.E.5a.  Bold in attack, this officer never hesitates to join in an engagement with the enemy, regardless of their numerical superiority. On 18th August, with four other machines, he attacked a large hostile formation. Five enemy machines were destroyed, Lt. Wilson accounting for one. In all he has four machines and one balloon to his credit. Wilson was killed in action when his aircraft was shot down east of Roulers by a Fokker D.VII.

Lists 
The following pages contain additional information relating to the 15th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA
Honours and Awards
Trophies
Commanding Officers and Regimental Sergeants Major
Honoraries
Battery Commanders and Battery Sergeants Major
Band Appointments
Nominal Roll
Guns of the Regiment
Memorial Page

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