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About Lukin Homfray Irving
From "E Veritas: Newsletter of the RMC Club of Canada":
* I was one of the Old 18, the first class of cadets who entered the College in Kingston on 1 June 1876. I had been educated in Germany. My nickname was ‘shy’.
* As a recruit I was older in appearance and experience than most.
* I was the oldest recruit since I was one month past my 20th birthday. I had been made lance-corporal on the first day of the term.
* As cadets, we made our own surveys of the college grounds. My chain sketch drawn in 1877 provides information about the layount of buildings in the early days.
* As I senior, I wore mutton-chop whiskers and an eye glass and had an appearance of solemnity and sedateness.
* I served as the first Battalion Sergeant-Major (BSM) from 1878-80. I had the power to award two days confinement to barracks.
* After I failed out of the College in February 1880, a successor eventually succeeded me as BSM.
* I chaired the the first RMC Club organizational meeting, which was held on 7 February 1884 in Toronto. From the beginning, the RMC Club was not restricted to graduates.
* I was elected the first president of RMC on 14 March 1885. The club’s purpose was the promotion of the college’s interests, rather than merely the interests of club members.
* The Club was incorporated under the Statutes of Ontario in 1898.
* The secretary of the Royal Military College Club and I made valuable donations to the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, for the Year 1892.
* I edited “Officers of the British forces in Canada during the war of 1812-I5″ (Welland, Tribune Print, 1908), which lists 11,000 participants in the war – most of the officers and divisions, and the various chiefs who sided with the British. The book was republished by the Canadian Military Institute in 2008.
* My son, Captain Jacob Aemilius, served in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force with the 13th York Rangers during World War I.
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Lukin Homfray Irving's Timeline
| 1855 |
October 19, 1855
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Galt, Cambridge, Waterloo Regional Municipality, ON, Canada
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| 1882 |
November 5, 1882
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| 1884 |
October 7, 1884
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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| 1887 |
April 29, 1887
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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| 1942 |
December 22, 1942
Age 87
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Toronto, Toronto Division, ON, Canada
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St James Cemetery, Toronto, ON, Canada
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