Victor Brereton Rivers no relation Corps of Guides
Lieutenant Colonel Victor Brereton Rivers (2 February 1860 - 25 September 1911) was the first Intelligence Staff Officer of the Canadian militia on 6 February 1901. His staff work led shortly after, on 1 April 1903, to the formation of the Corps of Guides, a forerunner of the Canadian Forces Intelligence Branch.Family
He married Maud Gertrude Gildersleeve, born 26 March 1864, who after his death never remarried and died 19 December 1954 at age 90. Their home in Ottawa, Ontario, was at 252 Daly Avenue.
They had four children: Helen who died at 2 months of age; Marjorie, born 11 August 1889 who died 6 September 1911 of tuberculosis at age 20 (nineteen days before her father); Charles, who served in WW1 as a pilot and who died of stomach cancer in 1967 at age 72 having had no children; and the youngest, Victor Henry, who served in the trenches during WW1 where he was gassed but survived and died in 1994 at age 96. He had two children Victor B. Rivers and Timothy C. Rivers.
Maud's father was Charles Fuller Gildersleeve, originally a lawyer but became general manager of the Northern Navigation Company.
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