Canadian Honour Role - RBC Bankers

[Borden Battery]

For Canadian Corps researchers, here is a recent addition to the Royal Bank of Canada [RBC] website which lists all staff killed during the Great War.

http://www.rbc.com/history/in_remembrance/ww1_list.html

[N.S.Regt.]

I had seen this list before but they made some large improvements since I was last there. It never had the mini bios when I last seen it, good stuff.

Best regards

N.S.regt.

[Borden Battery]

Yes, the mini biographies give one more data to work with. My grandfather was a junior banker with the Union Bank of Canada which was bought by the Royal Bank in 1925.

With the recruitment of the 196th Western Universities Battalion [ U of Manitoba, U of Saskatchewan, U of Alberta and UBC] a significant number of the recruits seem to be either engineering students or junior bankers.

Many of this group appear to have been absorbed into the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. I am still researching this possible relationship.

I have done a quick search of the other Canadian banking websites, however, the RBC appears to be the only one with a Great War section.

Regards

- Dwight Mercer