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Harold Edwards

“...I am a prisoner at Karlsruhe. I was shot down after lengthy engagement with several enemy machines..."

James Carthew

James Carthew was Laura Secord's great-grandson. He was also the third cousin to Princess Diana's great-grandmother.

John William Grant

John’s plane was once sabotaged while he was transporting a Russian high-ranking officer to another location.

Lyell Campbell Spence

On March 7th, 1918 he was awarded the Military Cross for "gallantry and devotion to duty as a forward observation officer (FOO) during an attack."

James David Moses

Moses was a Delaware from the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve near Brantford, Ontario.

Lorne Lamont Saunders

He died on October 4, 1918 during the Battle of the Somme. He was 19 years old.

Ralph Sausmarez Carey

“I didn't expect then that I would ever get back alive to my family so I wanted them to have a picture to remember me by.”

Roy Everton Goodfellow

Though Goodfellow was Presbyterian, he joined the Catholic service because it was at 9 am — two hours earlier than the Presbyterian service.

Wallace Jamieson

One of Jamieson's prized Great War keepsakes was a souvenir 77mm German shell, engraved and embellished with copper and silver.

William Duncan MacKenzie

He never made it overseas so he returned to Forest, Ontario, to open his own pharmacy after graduating from the University of Toronto in 1917.