Image: Cephas & Irene Gilmour at the Hythe Golden Age Craft Centre’s celebration of their 64th wedding anniversary. 1981. (SPRA 573.06.03)
Regimental Number: 18815
Rank: Private
Branch: 9th Battalion; Canadian Cyclist Corps; Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Cephas was born in London, Ontario on March 31, 1893. In 1912, he and his father came up to the Belloy area to homestead. Cephas enlisted in the Canadian Army at Valcartier on September 22, 1914. On March 17, 1917, Cephas married Irene Hinder, an Englishwoman who was employed at a munitions factory. In 1919, they came to the South Peace. Cephas filed on the southern half of 10-78-2-W6, but his work with the railroad meant the family moved a great deal and he did not prove up on either quarter. Cephas and Irene had three children: Iris, Robert, and Joyce. Cephas died in Hythe in June of 1982.
Sources: 0573.03.15 (photograph); surname file; Pioneer Round Up p. 79a; Jan. 8, 1953 p. 6 c. 3; June 8, 1944 p. 4 c. 2 (?)