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    The most celebrated U.S. Army chaplain in the Great War, Father Francis Patrick Duffy, a Roman Catholic priest, was born in Cobourg, Canada, and was ordained in 1896. He attended the Catholic Univers

    The people shown in this photograph are: Back Row: McCullagh, Mac; Baker, Tom; Burnham, Olin; Hall, Dick; Galbraith, George; Gillespie; Booth; Connor, Kevin; McIntyre, George; Front Row: Mitchell, Ge

Mountney-Lessard, Emily, Northumberland Today.com (Cobourg, ON), 22 Nov 2016, Section A, p. 1, column 5     See also "Soldier's death not considered foul play" NorthumberlandToday.com 22 November 2016, A2

Northumberland Today.com (Cobourg, ON), 22 Nov 2016, Section A, p. 2     See also "Probing soldier's death abroad" NorthumberlandToday.com 22 November 2016, A1, col. 5

    Dressed up and ready for the front, Gunner Victor W. Climo is shown here, leaving England for France.

    Private Angrove was a popular Cobourg young man. He made the supreme sacrifice on the field of battle on September 3, 1916. The Angrove family had lived in Cobourg for a number of years.

    Gunner Cecil Chambers Pratt of Cobourg was killed in action at Bully-Grenay, France on August 9, 1917.

    Note camouflage netting covering the adjacent gun site.

    Included in this photograph is Clifford Duncan Harcourt, who is located at the end of the first row.

    Major Hobbs was originally from England and a member of the 33rd Regiment. His father and grandfather surveyed the borders of the Himalayas, India, Pakistan, Tibet and Nepal. He lived at 100 James St

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    General Charles Lane Fitzhugh was the youngest civil war general in the Union Army. The Fitzhugh's were an old Virginia family of great wealth who spent much time in Cobourg after 1867. Charles becam

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    The original Cobourg Heavy Battery, which later was joined by the P.E.I. contingent at Halifax to form the Canadian 2nd Heavy battery, is shown in the above group photograph. Included in this group i

    Lieutenant Colonel Charles Arkoll Boulton (17 April, 1841 – 15 May, 1899) is noted for his role in the Red River and North-West Rebellions. He was born in Cobourg, Ontario in 1841, the great-grandson

    On August 21st, 1914 a contingent of the 40th Northumberland Battalion left for Valcartier, Quebec, where it became a company of the Second Battalion.

    3rd overseas draft of the Cobourg Heavy Battery, December 1915/January 1916. Left Cobourg for overseas late in March, 1916. Recruiting officer (left centre) Major James McKinnon, Captain (right centr

    Picture taken at Petawawa Camp. This Battery was attached to the Canadian Royal Artillery.

    On Saturday September 25th, 1915, another fifteen recruits departed Cobourg for Kingston accomplanied by recruiting officer, Capt. W.J. Troop. The Cobourg Citizens Band and a large group of citizens