A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
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A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
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every dollar which can be saved is of material importance to the
successful prosecution of the war.” In very many other ways since the
war commenced in 1914, Sir Henry Drayton has rendered valuable
services—financially, as a member of committees and in the direction of
transportation, supply and other matters. He is ever to the fore to do
all he can to help Canada successfully bear the burdens—financially,
commercially and otherwise—that this war has forced her to carry and no
one has ever rendered such services more freely and willingly. Sir Henry
Drayton is a member of the Toronto, Toronto Hunt, Ontario Jockey,
Rideau, Ottawa Royal Golf, Country (Ottawa), Connaught Park Jockey
(Ottawa), and the Kaministiquia (Fort William) Clubs. His address is 233
Metcalfe St., Ottawa.
[Illustration: S. R. PARSONS
Toronto]
=Dobell, Sir Charles Macpherson, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.= (Quebec City),
Lieutenant-General of the British Army, is a son of the late Hon. R. R.
Dobell, lumber merchant, of Quebec, and a grandson of Senator Sir David
Macpherson, at one time Speaker of the Canadian Senate. He is a native
of Quebec, having been born on June 22, 1869. Receiving his elementary
education at the Rev. Canon Von Iffland’s Private School, he became a
student at the Quebec High School and later at the Charterhouse School
in England, previous to his entering the Royal Military College at
Kingston, Ontario. From that institution he graduated in 1890. After
serving as a Lieutenant in the Hazara Expedition, wherein his bravery
was mentioned in dispatches and by the award of a medal and clasp, his
advancement has proceeded steadily with his experience in active
service. He took part with the International Forces in the occupation of
the Island of Crete, and was there raised to the rank of Major. During
the South African War, he joined the Canadian Contingent, and won his
D.S.O. with other honors, during the several engagements of the
campaign. In command of a regiment of mounted infantry he shared in
conflict after conflict with the Boers, taking part in the relief of
Kimberley, and in the engagements of Paardeberg, Poplar Grove,
Prefontaine, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill, and many others.
After serving in Nigeria, he was given the rank of Lieut.-Colonel, his
name from time to time occurring in the dispatches to the War Office. As
an interruption to his service in Nigeria, he was called to China during
the Boxer uprising, and was present at the relief of Pekin by the
International Forces. On his return from China, he was appointed by the
War Office to the South African Intelligence Department, and became an
A.D.C. to the King. Later on he was gazetted as Inspector-General of the
West African Field Force, with the rank of Brigadier-General, a position
he was holding when Germany declared war in 1914. Since then he has
gained further distinction and promotion. With a combined force of
French and English troops numbering nearly ten thousand, he shared in
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