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Joseph Walker

Joseph Walker served in the Royal Canadian Regiment until he was sent to England to recuperate from a wound or sickness.

John Henry Rawsthorne Slack

During the First World War he entertained throughout Europe as a member of Billet 13, a military entertainment group with the 83rd Queen’s Own Rifles.

Russel Sage Falconer

Russel Sage Falconer served as a private with the 33rd Battalion.

Edward Shirtraw

Edward Shirtraw enlisted on September 10, 1915, at age 38. He served with the 44th Battalion and the 176th Tunnelling Company.

Bruce Anderson Smith

He was transferred to 2nd Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops because of his skills with draft animals.

Sir Arthur William Currie

“Currie used … organization and covering support of all kinds to the maximum in order to ensure the lowering of the cost of lives.”

William George Barker

Few Canadians are aware that Barker was, and still is, Canada’s most decorated war hero.

Constant Doyon

Contrary to the custom of the time, Doyon wrote much of his correspondence as a military chaplain in French.

James Cleland Richardson

For some ten minutes, fully exposed, he “strode up and down outside the wire, playing his pipes with the greatest coolness.”

Ellis Wellwood Sifton

Sifton’s experiences in the trenches mirrored those of thousands of other young Canadians.