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44TH REGIMENT CONTINUES TO SECURE MANY RECRUITS
[People’s Press, 3 August 1915]
Welland Boys are Coming Forward With Alacrity-Recruits Secured Since Quota Left Wednesday now Number Over Sixty
WAR NEWS AND NOTES OF LOCAL INTEREST
Recruiting is still going on with alacrity at 44th headquarters. The concentration camp on the island; which was vacated by the quota which left on Wednesday is beginning to present a scene of activity again. Already over sixty recruits have volunteered for overseas service and in this number, Welland form a large percentage as follows:
Welland Honor Roll
| Wm. Steers
Chas. Martin Walter Mullis |
Leslie D. Harvey
Robt. Mitchell Elton S. Morris |
| C.A. Pike
Allan Crooks Melrose H. Dickie |
Charles Sage
Reginald C. Rendall Wilfred J. Major |
| Nick Saltarelli
Herbert J. Monck Leonard P. Basqill |
Jas. Irvine
John D. McPherson |
This quota will be in command of Lts. Dewart and D.S. Bartle of Niagara Falls. Lt. Dewart is now attending officer’s school at Niagara and Lt. Bartle is in charge of the camp.
Lieutenant Volunteers
Frank Logan and Fred Anderson of Niagara Falls have taken out Lieutenants’ commissions with the 44th regiment and have volunteered for overseas service.
Thorold’s Sons to the War
W.E. Cusler, teller, in the Thorold branch of the Imperial bank, is the latest recruit from Thorold to offer himself for overseas service. Mr. Cusler has made many friends at Thorold. He leaves for Niagara Wednesday, where he will take a course in training before leaving for the front.
Another of Thorold’s young sons, in the person of Roy Grenville, son of \Reeve and Mrs. Grenville, has enlisted for overseas service , and left Wednesday with the contingent from Welland for the fourth overseas contingent for Niagara camp, Mr. Grenville is a brother of Miss Ina Grenville, now serving as Red Cross nurse at the front. During the past two years Mr. Grenville had been in the employ of the local branch of the Quebec bank, where he made a great many friends, who will doubtless miss his smiling face and congenial ways, and who will wish him a safe return.
Enlisting With Dragoons
Thirty-two men have enlisted with the 2nd Dragoons at Welland for overseas service. It is expected they will go to concentration camp soon. The Dragons have discontinued enlisting for the present.
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