Rank
Officer
Commander
Wolseley’s Staff Officers
Lieutenant-Colonel
Fielding
Major
Bolton
Captain
Captain
Captain
Redvers Buller
Captain
McNeale
Chief-of-Staff
Matthew Irvine
First (Ontario) Battalion of Riflemen
Lieutenant-Colonel
Samuel Peters Jarvis
Major
Griffith Wainwright
Paymaster
J. F. B. Morrice
Adjutant
William J. B. Parsons
Quartermaster
Surgeon
Chaplain
Stewart Patterson
No. 1 Company
Captain
Henry Cooke
Lieutenant
James Benson
Ensign
No. 2 Company
Captain
William Smith
Lieutenant
Andrew McBride
Ensign
John Biggar
No. 3 Company
Captain
Thomas Macklem
Lieutenant
Ensign
No. 4 Company
Captain
Lieutenant
Ensign
No. 5 Company
Captain
William Macauley Herchmer
Lieutenant
Samuel Bruce Harman
Ensign
Samuel Hamilton
No. 6 Company
Captain
Alexander R. Macdonald
Lieutenant
William T. McMurty
Ensign
No. 7 Company
Captain
Lieutenant
Donald A. Macdonald
Ensign
Josiah Jones Bell
Second (Quebec) Battalion of Riflemen
Lieutenant-Colonel
Louis Adolphe Casault
Major
Paymaster
C. Auguste La Rue
Captain and Adjutant
F. D. Gagnier
Quartermaster
Surgeon
John Louis Hubert Neilson
Chaplain
Marie Joseph Royer
No. 1 Company
(did not reach
Fort Garry)Captain
L. C. A. L. de Bellefeuills
Lieutenant
Edward T. H. F. Patterson
Ensign
William Wilmount Ross
No. 2 Company
Captain
William John Barrett
Lieutenant
John Price Fletcher
Ensign
Alphonse Tetu
No. 3 Company
Captain
Lieutenant
Leonides de Salaberry
Ensign
No. 4 Company
Captain
John Fraser
Lieutenant
Maurice C. B. Duchesney
Ensign
Alphonse de Montenach Henri D'Eschambault
No. 5 Company
Captain
Jacques Labranche
Lieutenant
Oscar Prevost
Ensign
Gabriel Louis Des George
No. 6 Company
Captain
Samuel Macdonald
Lieutenant
Ensign
George Simard
No. 7 Company
Captain
Jean-Baptiste Amyot
Lieutenant
Henri Bouthillies
Ensign
Edward S. Bernard
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Men of the Red River Expeditionary Force (1870-1877)
Joseph F. Tennant, Rough Times, 1870-1920. A Souvenir of the 50th Anniversary of the Red River Expedition and the Formation of the Province of Manitoba, Part 1, Chapter 9.
Library and Archives Canada, RG9, II B4, Volume 16. Department of Militia and Defence, Post-Confederation Records, Adjutant General's Office and Headquarters, 1867-1922. Registers and Lists of Officers, 1867-1922. Register of service, Red River Rebellion, 1870-1877. [Compiled by Fred J. Shore, 1996, at www.olivetreegenealogy.com/mil/can/rr/rref2.shtml]
Canadians on the Nile, 1882-1898: Being the Adventures of the Voyageurs on the Khartoum Relief Expedition and Other Exploits by Roy MacLaren, Vancouver BC: University of British Columbia Press, 1978, ISBN 0-7748-0094-1.
We thank Bill Watts for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 15 January 2023
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