The Nile Voyageurs were a force of Canadian volunteers who served in the Sudan with British forces as part of the Nile Expedition from 1884 to 1885.[1] Though they were civilian volunteers, serving as boatmen for the British Army, they can be considered Canada’s first overseas contingent of war volunteers.[1]
16 voyageurs died on active service during the campaign, and as Canada’s first overseas casualties they are commemorated in the Book of Remembrance in Ottawa.[1]
Nile Expedition Roll of Honour 1884 – 1885
Soldier
Casualty
Date of casualty
Richard Burgess
Died of disease
September 26, 1884
Louis Capitaine
Drowned near Semneh
October 30, 1884
John Morris
Drowned
November 16, 1884
Michael Brennan
Died of dysentery
November 21, 1884
George Fletcher
Drowned near Ambigoll
November 23, 1884
John Edward Faulkner
Died from drowning
November 29, 1884
William Doyle
Drowned near Ambigoll
December 13, 1884
Solomon Bigneault
Died of small-pox
December 17, 1884
Leon Chatelain
Drowned near Semneh
December 18, 1884
Alexander Michael Armstrong
Died of fever
January 3, 1885
William James O’Rourke
Died of disease
February 4, 1885
Leon Pilon
Died of disease
February 4, 1885
John Andrew Sherlock
Died of disease
March 26, 1885
Patrick Leonard
Died from enteric fever
April 10, 1885
Daniel McLean
Died of disease
April 16, 1885
Col. William Nassau Kennedy
Died from small-pox
May 3, 1885
^ abcStacey, Charles, ed. (2013). Records of the Nile Voyageurs, 1884-1885: The Canadian Voyageur Contingent in the Gordon Relief Expedition. Toronto: Champlain Society Publications. doi:10.3138/9781442618220. ISBN 978-1-4426-1822-0.
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