Lieutenant William M. Carthew

William Morden Carthew sought out adventure. In early 1915, he left his practice of surveying Alberta's mountain ranges in the rocky mountains for a commission in the 49th Battalion (E.R.). He served with the unit in Flanders and was killed by shellfire whilst the battalion was moving across open ground to their jumping off positions for the Sanctuary Wood counter-attack in June 1916. Carthew was the first officer of the 49th Battalion (E.R.) to be killed during the Great War. In 1917, a mountain in the Akamina Pass was named in his honour. His remains were recovered after the war and reinterred at La Brique Military Cemetery No. 2, Flanders.