Memorable Manitobans: Officers of the Wolseley Expedition (1870)

Rank

Officer

Commander

Garnet Joseph Wolseley

Wolseley’s Staff Officers

Lieutenant-Colonel

Fielding

Major

Bolton

Captain

William Francis Butler

Captain

George L. Huyshe

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

Edward Armstrong

Surgeon

Alfred Codd

Chaplain

Stewart Patterson

No. 1 Company

Captain

Henry Cooke

Lieutenant

James Benson

Ensign

William Hill Nash

No. 2 Company

Captain

William Smith

Lieutenant

Andrew McBride

Ensign

John Biggar

No. 3 Company

Captain

Thomas Macklem

Lieutenant

David Marr Walker

Ensign

Adam John Laing Peebles

No. 4 Company

Captain

Daniel Hunter McMillan

Lieutenant

William Nassau Kennedy

Ensign

Stewart Mulvey

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

Hugh John Macdonald

No. 7 Company

Captain

Thomas Scott

Lieutenant

Donald A. Macdonald

Ensign

Josiah Jones Bell

Second (Quebec) Battalion of Riflemen

Lieutenant-Colonel

Louis Adolphe Casault

Major

Acheson Gosford Irvine

Paymaster

C. Auguste La Rue

Captain and Adjutant

F. D. Gagnier

Quartermaster

Frank Villiers

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

Allan Macdonald

Lieutenant

Leonides de Salaberry

Ensign

John Beresford Allan

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

Josephus Wyatt Vaughan

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)

Sources:

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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