Francis Pegahmagabow
Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow (1891-1952) is one of the most highly decorated
aboriginal soldiers in
Canadian military history. He was an
Ojibwa from the Parry Island Band in
Ontario,
Canada. He enlisted on
August 1914 and was involved in the Battle of
Ypres, when the
Germans first used
chlorine gas attacks. He was known as a very effective marksman, having killed upwards of 378
Germans.
In
1919, he returned to Canada and continued to serve as Algonquin Militia Regiment and became Chief of the Parry Island Band in
1921 until
1925. He was also a councillor from
1933 to
1936.
