Alfred Clinton Totty (1897 - 1918)

Alfred Totty was born at Forty Mile to parents Benjamin and Selina Totty. Benjamin was an Anglican missionary and Alfred attended the Moosehide primary school where his father taught. He was later sent out to Victoria to finish his studies. In 1918, he was working in a Winnipeg post office before he was conscripted in January to serve in the First World War. His brother Elliot was already in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Alfred joined the 78th Battalion in the field just after the battle of Amiens. On 2 September, his unit was on the road between Arras and Cambrai when they received heavy machine gun fire and he was killed. Private Totty was buried in the Drury Mill Cemetery at Pas Des Calais in France.¹⁾