Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Private Ralph Bramwell was born on 24 November 1876, in Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Bramwell, was 22 and his mother, Hannah Archwright, was 22. He married Mary Elizabeth Crompton on 23 October 1897, in Gorton, Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 39, his occupation is listed as miner in Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. He died on 14 November 1930, in Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 53, and was buried in Saint Mary’s Anglican Cemetery, Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.
94th Victoria Regiment “Argyll Highlanders”
Summer Camp at Aldershot, NS
1911
The band was from Glace Bay, NS.
Front Row, Left to Right:
1. Joe Valentine
2. Grover Hull (sitting)
3. Sam Mosley (kneeling)
4. Jack Johnstone (sitting)
5. Sol Green (kneeling)
6. Tom Fraser (to left of drum)
7. John MacNaughton (to right of drum)
8. Dan MacKeigan (sitting)
9. Donald Weir (kneeling)
10. Archie Ferguson (?)
11. Robert (Bob) Lyons
12. J. Taylor MacDonald
Back Row, Left to Right:
1. Sgt. Walter Carmichael (Bandmaster)
2. Cpl. Allan MacDonald
3. Rannie MacDonald
4. George Weir
5. James Mosley
6. Stewart Ingraham
7. Alex McLeod
8. Norman MacDonald
9. (?)
10. Noddie Morrison
11. Sgt. Ralph Bramwell
12. Charles Anderson
The name on the large bass drum is Prince Albert Band.
Where legible, the names listed above are as written in pen on the back of the original photo.
Photographer: Graham, Windsor and Wolfville, NS
Ref. Number: 12-4 (2.1)
Image Information: Scan of original photo
Source: Terry Mosley, Glace Bay, NS, 2012
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 