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Johnson Paudash
Born	29 January 1875 Hiawatha, Ontario, Canada
Died	26 October 1959(1959-10-26) (aged 84)
Buried	Riverside Cemetery, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
Allegiance	Canada
Service / branch	Canadian Expeditionary Force
Years of service	1914–1918
Rank	Lance Corporal
Service number	59779
Unit	21st Battalion (Eastern Ontario), CEF
Battles / wars	World War I
Awards	Military Medal
Relations	Florence Paudash (wife)

Lance Corporal Johnson Paudash MM (29 January 1875 – 26 October 1959) was an acclaimed Canadian sniper during the First World War.

Biography

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Paudash, an Ojibwa native, joined the 21st Battalion (Eastern Ontario), CEF on 11 November 1914 at Kingston, Ontario (his younger brother, George Paudash, 24, also enlisted at the same time). After training he embarked aboard the SS Metagama on 6 May 1915 and sailed to Great Britain. In July 1915 he was promoted to lance corporal and in mid-September of the same year arrived in France. On 22 September, whilst fighting at Messines, Paudash was shot in the right leg. After recuperating from this wound, Paudash rejoined his unit south of Ypres in Belgium. It was here that Paudash showed the skills required to be a sniper.

Post war

Paudash became a civil servant with the federal government. He was considered by the Indian Commission to be "almost as smart as any lawyer regarding Indian treaties or legal paper". Johnson Paudash was responsible for bringing the commission's attention to the errors regarding lands described in or thought to be governed by earlier treaties and helped correctly define the treaty borders for the 1923 treaty.

References

1. C.O.A., p. 94
2. Judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada Archived 18 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine

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