Sydney Chilton Mewburn
Sydney Chilton Mewburn, was a Canadian lawyer, soldier, and politician.
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Born in Hamilton, Canada West, he was the Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence from October 12, 1917, to January 15, 1920, under Sir Robert Borden's Union Government in 1917. Mewburn was Commanding Officer of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry and served during World War I, he was a Major General in the Canadian Army before his appointment as Minister of Militia in October 1917.
He was later the Chair of the 1920 Canadian Battlefields Memorials Commission, which selected the site for the Vimy Memorial.
