Birtle’s Veterans: North-West Mounted Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Please feel free to contact us if you have any more information on any of these individuals.
For more information on our veterans, please refer to our history book, Passing It On, available at our library, or online at the University of Manitoba digital collections library.
You can also visit the RCMP Graves Database. Please note that the database doesn’t work for all browsers, so if it won’t open for you, try a different browser.
North-West Mounted Police
Allan, Ed
Service #968
Bierd, Harry Ernest

#1765
Served May 14, 1886–May 22, 1895
Brandon, Sedgewick
Crerar, James
#05-401A
Served April 26, 1875–April 30, 1878
Daniels, Ben
Henderson, Cst Samuel
#134
Served June 8, 1876–June 30, 1879
Herchimer, Commissioner L.W.
Lawrence William Herchmer served as an Indian Agent, Militia Officer, and NWMP Commissioner. His biography is available as a pdf (680 KB).
McDougall, John
#290
Served April 30, 1874–April 30, 1880
McKinnon, A.
Ridout, R.L.
Seale, George
#105
Served 1877–May 5, 1880
Discharged at Fort Walsh with a land grant of 60 acres
The story of a stone house he built near Birtle in 1889 may be found on the Manitoba Historical Society’s website.
Redmond, Thomas James
#1004
Served March 11, 1884–October 10, 1888
Enlisted at Fort Osborn and discharged at Battleford. Engaged in the first battle at Duck Lake and helped escort Louis Riel to Regina for his trial.
Talbot, Sgt. John Henry
#986
Enlisted in Winnipeg for a five-year term.
December 27, 1883–December 26,1888.
Served at Prince Albert
Wilson, Dan
Winter, Presgrave
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Bamford, Robert

Barnes, Gerald, Cpl
Baskier, Don
Chisholm, Stan, Ass/Comm
Cochrane, L.W. Sgt.

Recruit Training in Regina, French Language Training in Ottawa.
Served in “J” Division, New Brunswick
February 1969–May 1998
Davidson, Jack, S/Sgt.
Hacking, Gordon

Haney, Tom
Hickman, S/Sgt. Barry
Hickman, Constable Harold

Served in Saskatchewan
1953–1956
Hickman, Chief Superintendent Lloyd

Served in Saskatchewan,
Ottawa, and Alberta
1966–2002
MacBeth, Sgt. Stephen “Steve” Gilbert

Canada
1966–1986
Morgan, Len, Cst or Cpl
Moxham, Edgar, Sgt.
Moxham, Les, Cpl and brother
Pratt, S/Sgt. Frederick Brian

Canada
1952–1979
Stainer, Gordon

Webb, S/Sgt. Douglas M.

Served in Prince Rupert, Ottawa, Edmonton, and Regina
January 1951–July 1981