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Wesley Stealwood Bagshaw
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Apr 25, 1894
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Born at Sunderland Ontario, Canada
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Jan 21, 1915
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Attested at Ottawa Ontario into the 2nd
Signal Company Canada
Ø Number 13 (temporary number 480)
Ø Next of kin given as Mrs. OE Bagshaw (mother) of Sunderland Ontario
Ø Occupation given as “Telegraph Operator”
Ø No previous military experience is given
Ø Religion given as “Presbyterian”
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Jan 30, 1915
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Pay card which starts Jan 1, 1915 through Apr
1915 (with service number 480) has a notation “Forfeits 2 days pay 30-14-14”. (I suspect this should have read 30-1-15, as
there is no indication of him being present for service prior to Jan 21, 1915.)
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May 24, 1915
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Disembarked the SS Megantic in England
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Jul 2, 1915
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Given 1 day Field Punishment (not specified as
No 1 or No 2) and confined to Barracks at Digbate for 3 days and fined 1 day’s pay
for “Absence”
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Aug 12, 1915
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Placed in Detention at St Marton’s Place
for 16 hours and fined 8 day’s pay for being AWL (Absent Without Leave)
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Sep 15, 1915
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TOS CETD (Canadian Engineers Training Depot)
at Shorncliffe
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Sep 16, 1915
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Admitted to tent hospital at St Martins with
Gonorrhea
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Sep 20, 1915
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Transferred to Workhouse Military Hospital at
Newcastle on Tyne
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Oct 28, 1915
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Discharged from hospital to CCD (Canadian
Convalescent Depot)
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Jan 13, 1916
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Ceases on course at CCD
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Jan 15, 1916
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SOS from CCAC as being “fit” and
sent to CEFD (Canadian Expeditionary Force Depot) Crowboro
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Jan 19, 1916
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Transferred to Signal Pool at Shorncliffe
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Jan 20, 1916
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TOS Signal Pool in the Field
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Feb 7, 1916
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Joined the Signal Pool in France
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May 2, 1916
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Transferred to 1st Canadian
Division Signal Company
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May 3, 1916
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TOS 1st Division Signal Company
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Jun 26, 1916
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Wounded in shoulder and arms, “not
seriously”
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Sep 26, 1916
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Wounded shoulder, neck and left hand
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Oct 3, 1916
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Wounded and transferred to England via the
Hospital Ship St David
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Oct 4, 1916
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Invalided and transferred to CCAC (Canadian
Casualty Assembly Center) Folkestone
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Oct 5, 1916
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Admitted to 3rd Southern General
Hospital with GSW (Gun Shot Wound) to head and left hand and boils to right side of neck
and forehead
Ø Cannot remember date or place of injury
Ø Remembers nothing until he awoke in hospital
Ø When admitted he was incoherent and dazed
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Oct 6, 1916
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TOS (Taken On Strength) CCAC (Canadian
Casualty Assembly Center) Crowboro
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Oct 6, 1916
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SOS CCAC and admitted No 3 Stationary Hospital
at Oxford
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Oct 25, 1916
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Transferred to Bearwood Canadian Convalescent
Hospital at Wokingham
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Nov 23, 1916
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Discharged from CCH Bearwood to CCAC for duty
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Nov 24, 1916
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Medical Board held at Shoreham Camp, Sussex
Ø Burns to hands and face
Ø Says he was partially unconscious for 3 weeks
Ø Has a slight cough
Ø Does not sleep well
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Nov 27, 1916
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On Command and on Course at CCD (Canadian
Convalescent Depot) Hastings for 6 weeks PT (Physical Training) at Hastings
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Jan 12, 1917
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Discharged from CCD St Leonard’s
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Jan 13, 1917
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Ceases On Command CCD
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Jan 15, 1917
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TOS CETD from CCAC Crowborough
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Jan 21, 1917
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Awarded the Good Conduct Badge
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Feb 12, 1917
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Admitted to Crowboro Hospital with Tonsillitis
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Mar 12, 1917
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Discharged from hospital
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Mar 20, 1917
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Admitted to Brigade Hospital at Crowboro with
Tonsillitis
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Mar 28, 1917
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While in hospital, symptoms of Syphilis
developed
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Apr 20, 1917
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Discharged Brigade Hospital Crowboro to the
lines
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May 26, 1917
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SOS CETD and TOS 6th Reserve
Battalion
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Jul 11, 1917
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SOS 6th Reserve Battalion and TOS
21st Battalion at No 2 CIBD (Canadian Infantry Base Details) Seaford
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Jul 16, 1917
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Left to join unit in the Field
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Jul 17, 1917
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Joined 21st Battalion in the Field
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Apr 3, 1919
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Proceeded to England
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May 2, 1919
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SOS to “P” Wing for processing
pending demobilization
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May 13, 1919
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SOS to MD No 3, Canada
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May 14, 1919
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Embarked the SS Caronia for Canada
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May 23, 1919
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Disembarked at Montreal
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May 24, 1919
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Discharged at Kingston Ontario on being
demobilized
Ø War Service Badge Class “A” No 279848
Ø Address on discharge “Sunderland Ontario”
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May 21, 1960
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Deceased
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Note:
Medals card
indicates that the British War Medal and Victory Medal were sent to him c/o the CPR
Station at Perth Ontario. The date is not
shown in the file.
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