CANADA GENERAL SERVICE MEDALS
AWARDED TO LANARK COUNTY SOLDIERS
1866 - 1870

In 1972 the Military Collectors’ Club of Canada produced a list which purported to include all recipients of the General Service Medal of 1866-70 which was issued to all participants in the conflict that is now referred to as The Fenian Raids and later in 1870 to the Red River affair.

Among recipients of this medal were the members of these Rifle and Infantry Companies from the immediate Lanark County area:

ALMONTE INFANTRY COMPANY
Barnett, Aaron	Berryman, Sam J.
Bond, George	Brown, John
Brown, Lyman	Bryan, Chas. H.
Coleman, Abel	Cram, Joseph
Douglass, Thos. D.	Edwards, Charles
Gemmell, James D.	Gilmour, John
McDougall, Peter	McEwen, Dugald
McPhee, Arch	Mitcheson, Thomas
Murray, James	Nicholson, Wm.
Rosamond, James	Russell, Gavin
Russell, Nath. M.	Scott, Sep
Simpson, Charles	Somerville, Jas. H.
Templeton, William	Tennant, Thomas
Teskey, Ang. M.	Wilson, Peter C.
Wilson, Robert
CARLETON PLACE INFANTRY COMPANY
Adams, Abr.	Bell, Jos. J.
Bell, Robt. W.	Burke, M.
Coleman, Andrew	Coleman, James
Cram, Wm. C.	Dowdal, William
Duff, William	Fleming, Robert
Grey, William B.	Kilpatrick, Ephr.
Kirkpatrick, Jas. T.	Leslie, Jacob
McArthur, Dan C.	McCallum, Archb.
McCallum, Lachlan	McFadden, James
McNab, David	McNeely, Drum
McNeely, John	McPherson, David
McPherson, George	McVean, Archibald
Moffat, James	Moore, James
Moore, Wm. H.	Patterson, Wm.
Pattie, William	Rorison, William
Sinclaire, John	Sumner, John O.
Tucker, Pat	Willis, James
Wilson, John M.
PAKENHAM RIFLE COMPANY
Allison, And.	Anderson, John
Baird, James G.	Berlangett, John
Bradley, Mich.	Cameron, James
Clarke, Henry	Cowan, James
Cowan, William	Dark, Thomas
Dryman, Jas.	Dudley, William
Farrell, James	Lowe, And.
McKeown, John	Mann, James
Moore, And.	Needham, Sam
Needham, Thomas	Owens, William
Scott, Robert	Simpson, James
Smith, James	Tait, Ralph
Woods, John
PERTH INFANTRY COMPANY
Best, Henry	Best, John
Binks, Thomas C.	Binks, Wm. J.
Burns, Pat	Campbell, David
Davis, James	DeWitt, Henry
Dittrich, John	Douglas, Thomas
McCullouch, George	McCullough, Chris
McCullough, John	McLean, Neil
McLenaghen, James	McVitty, Simon
Marks, Dan	Matheson, Arthur J.
Matheson, Ch. A.	Mitchell, George
Farmer, Sam	Farmer, Thomas
Farmer, William	Field, John
Field, William W.	Fisher, John P.
Glossop, Dan	Glossop, Franc. H.
Hayhurst, James D.	Hendry, John
Hetherington, Frank	Hughes, Robert S.
Jamieson, Arch.	Joynt, Chris
Livingston, Sim.	Moore, George
Oliver, George	Riddell, Russ. C.
Scott, Thomas	Smith, James C.
Steele, William J.	Stewart, Robert
Stone, George	Thompson, John T.
Walker, James M.	Walker, Robert H.
Williams, Wm.	Wilson, John
PERTH RIFLE COMPANY
Baird, And.	Bell, Chas. N.
Cameron, Ben	Campbell, John M.
Cavanagh, William H.	Checkley, John B.
Cherry, George	Dennison, Wm. J.
Douglas, John W.	Dunlop, Peter
Fairbairn, Wm. L.	Fisher, Sam
Flett, Thomas	James, Wm.
Judson, Lor. H.	Kellock, Wm. L.
Kippen, Alec.	Kippen, John
Larivee, George H.	Lavergne, Pet.
Lawson, Wm.	Lillie, Rob.
MacMartin, Malc. M.	McIntosh, John B.
Mitchell, David G.	Moffat, Thomas
Moore, James	Norton, Th. H.
Patterson, Mann	Robertson, Jas. W.
Scott, William	Spillman, Ed.
Steele, George	Storey, Sam
Thornton, Jn.	Warren, Ben
Watson, Wm.	Wylie, Wm. H.
SMITHS FALLS INFANTRY COMPANY
Anderson, Wm. J.	Calladine, Wm.
Caswell, Wm. H.	McGregor, Alex.
Percy, And.	Wood, David F.

Each name on these lists represent a medal issued by the Canadian government in appreciation for these individuals volunteering to answer the call for a nation in distress. Any medal that is not being carefully preserved by the families of these men should be presented to the local museums for safe keeping and preservation. They could be shared with others with an historical interest. Two other local companies were the Burritt’s Rapids Infantry Company and the Merrickville Rifle Company.