Deltans in the War

The author is compiling a list of all men and women connected to Ladner and Delta who served in the Canadian armed forces in the First World War, from 1914 to 1919. So far, four pilots, four sailors, two nurses, and over 280 soldiers have been identified. Some of the soldiers enlisted, fought, and died in France and Flanders, with infantry units like the 29th (Tobin's Tigers) Vancouver Battalion, the 47th Westminster Battalion, and the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders. Others were conscripted and made it to England or stayed in Canada.

The following is a list of those who are named on the cenotaph in Ladner's Memorial Park. Do you know of these men, or any others? Please get in touch.

Cecil Weare
Arthur Mills
J.C. Smallwood
Douglas A. Wright
Edwin E. Hutcherson
William S. Montgomery
Geoffrey McCallan
John Mead
Hume Hilton
Basil French
S. Montgomery
John P. Cameron
Malcolm Leonard
William McLennan
Fred A. Cook
Guy A. Taylor
Sidney Welsh
William Lewis
Neil McNiven
Robert Scott
John E. Falk
Cyril Moore
Stanley Smith
Sidney N. Rich
Robert Kettles
Fred W. Whitworth
Lester W. Handford

The following are the real names and regimental numbers of the men, as best as is known.

Cameron, John Paterson; 102605
Cook, Fred Arnold; 130297
Falk, John Edward; 761271
French, Basil; 464310
Handford, Lester William; 790478
Hilton, Ronald Hume; 75067
Hutcherson, Edwin Earle; 760543
Kettles, Robert; 130159
Leonard, Malcolm; VR/5039
Lewis, William; 75991
McCallan, Geoffrey Wallington; 629580
McLennan, William; 130122 ?
McNiven, Neil; 51330
Meade, John; 429672
Mills, Arthur; 75997
Montgomery, Sydney R.; 790922 ?
Montgomery, William Savage; 790294
Moore, Cyril Leslie; 428534
Rich, Sidney Norris; 431159
Scott, Robert; ?
Smallwood, James Clarence; 688175
Smith, Stanley Cecil; 760148
Taylor, Guy Arthur; 2138355
Weare, Cecil; 68083
Welsh, Sidney; 790880
Whitworth, Frederick; VR/5046
Wright, Douglas Archibald; 411061