George Gilchrist

Fellow McGill soldier
Mentioned: 1915, 1916
McGill & friends from home

Lieutenant George Hager Gilchrist, M.C.: "George Gilchrist" in the diary. Born 19 January 1893, he enlisted on 24 February 1915 (regimental no. 66100) and went overseas with the 24th Battalion, disembarking at Boulogne that September: seen "entraining for the front with the machine gun section of the 24th" in an October 1915 McGill Daily letter. Robertson sees him again in the diary on July 2, 1916; that same week he was taken onto the strength of the 2nd Canadian Tunnelling Company, Canadian Engineers, on being commissioned lieutenant (effective July 9): the move a McGill Daily letter that October reported as "with the Tunnellers now." He was awarded the Military Cross, gazetted 25 August 1917.

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Appears in the diary · 1 entry

1916

  • 2 July 1916… mud hole for half an hour to fool him. – Plenty of entertainment. – Three big rats fighting over a man’s hand. – Saw Geo. Gilchrist – Met Bevan at 10th H.Q. + went over part of the line. – Getting busy for tomorrow night.
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