Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 121 William F. D. Bremner 1859 - 1933 Born in Halifax, William Frederick DesBarres Bremner joined the NorthWest Mounted Police in 1884 and arrived out West in time to witness the suppression of the “North-West Rebellion” between the Métis and their First Nations allies against Canadian government forces. When the 112th Battalion was activated at Windsor in 1915, with broad recruitment across western Nova Scotia, Bremner volunteered and quickly became a Major and second-in-command. After training on the grounds of Fort Edward in Windsor, this battalion arrived in England in 1916, but did not see combat. After many soldiers were sent to reinforce other units on the continent, the 112th was merged into the 26th Reserve Battalion. Suffering from chronic bronchitis in 1917, Bremner was invalided back to Canada and released from the service. He retired to his fruit farm at Castle Frederick in Falmouth, Hants County. Malcolm Cann 1895 - 1914 Malcolm Cann of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, was one of the first Canadian servicemen to die in combat during the Great War. Cann was in the first class of cadets to graduate from the Royal Naval College of Canada in Halifax in 1913. AMidshipman, he temporarily joined the British fleet. Sadly, he and three other Nova Scotians serving onboard HMS Good Hope died at the Battle of Coronel on 1 November 1914, off the coast of Chile. The others were Arthur Silver and William Palmer of Halifax, and John Hatheway from Granville. Cann was just 19. Cann is honoured on the Halifax Memorial in Point Pleasant Park, dedicated to those who died in the World Wars with unknown graves. continued ... Image: Bremner Family Image: Yarmouth County Museum and Archives continued ...
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