LEST WE FORGET 157 DUNSMORE, Oliver Frederick WWI Oliver was born on April 18, 1892, in Rocanville to Joseph Alexander and Sarah Jane (Arnold) Dunsmore. He was the second oldest of nine children. After schooling, he did carpentry and farmed. He enlisted in the Army in Regina on January 5, 1918, with the Canadian Infantry, 1st Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles. He arrived in England on April 19, 1918, aboard the Metagama. The 1st CMR arrived in France on August 22, 1918. Private Dunsmore was killed in action on September 29, 1918. Orders for the 1st CMR on that day were to capture the town of St. Olle. “Very brilliant work was done by the 1st C.M.R. of Saskatchewan in storming St. Olle in the face of intensive machine gun fire both from that village and NeuvilleSt. Remy beyond, where one of our staff officers described the rattle of machine guns as drowning out the roar of the artillery. In this attack the battalion lost 350 men but by two o’clock in the afternoon had cleared the village and pushed its line forward to the banks of the canal at Cambrai.” (J.F.B. Livesay, Canada’s Hundred Days [Thomas Allen, Toronto, 1919] p.246) Oliver Dunsmore is buried just west of St. Olle at Raillencourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France. This cemetery contains 199 World War I burials of which 174 are Canadians. He is also remembered on the Rocanville Legion Cenotaph. DUNVILLE (DUMVILLE), Lawrence George WWI Lawrence was born on January 9, 1896 (1897), in Moosomin, Saskatchewan, to George Robert and Harriet (Couchman) Dumville. The family moved from the Cambridge district to the Hillburn district around 1903. He enlisted in the Army in Winnipeg on December 1, 1916, with the 34th Fort Garry Horse unit. He left Halifax on April 29, 1917, on the Olympic and was posted with the Canadian Machine Gun Brigade. He was sent to France on April 11, 1918, with the cavalry. He was discharged on July 1, 1919. Lawrence married Eva McDonald in 1936 in Winnipeg. Lawrence and Eva had three children and the family moved to the Fort William, Ontario area. Lawrence passed away on June 6, 1959, he is buried in Malton, Ontario.
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