Description
Like other Kainai recruits listed here, Strangling Wolf joined the 191st Battalion in 1916 and made an impression on the army almost immediately. According to Mike Mountain Horse, another Kainai recruit, Strangling Wolf turned up to the parade ground one morning wearing “elk teeth earrings, with an elk teeth necklace to match, and a gaudy red handkerchief around his neck. The crown of his hat was cut to let in the air, and he was noisily chewing gum.” After training, he made his way to England in April 1917. Shortly afterwards, he joined the 50th Battalion in France, participating in the heavy fighting at Vimy Ridge, where he was gassed in August 1917. After treatment at several military hospitals in France and England, he was transferred to the Canadian Discharge Depot at Buxton in December 1917, where his return to Canada was arranged on compassionate grounds. He sailed home on 23rd December 1917.
Bibliographic sources
Personnel file: https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B9375-S046; quote from Mike Mountain Horse, My People the Bloods (Calgary: Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1979), 141.