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Corporal Ralph Bateman Sleigh

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 565
Age: 26
Rank: Corporal
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Division: Fort MacLeod, Frog Lake, Fort Pitt & Cut Knife Hill
Birth: July 14, 1858
Enlistment: June 7, 1881
Death: May 2, 1885 Cut Knife Hill
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Corporal Sleigh was born in England and was a farmer before joining the NWMP. He enlisted at Toronto and was engaged at Fort Walsh. He was killed in the fight representing Government forces at Cut Knife Hill, Northwest Territories.

Corporal Sleigh was promoted to corporal on July 22, 1883. He was awarded the North West Canada Medal (1885) which is at the RCMP Museum in Regina. The Parade Square at Depot, “Sleigh Square”, was named after him.

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Page 10 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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