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Edmund Earle Ingalls

Lance Corporal Edmund Earle Ingalls enlisted in April 1916 and served with the 87th Battalion.

James Vesey Boswell

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Lawrence Mathews

Lawrence Mathews was a private with the 18th Battalion. He was killed in France on April 12, 1917.

Wilhelmine Kate Dennis

For women in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, France symbolized not just romance, but opportunity.

John Diefenbaker

He was injured in a training accident and never served in a combat role during the war.

Ernest Hermon Hawthorne

Before he enlisted on October 20, 1915, he graduated from the Manitoba Agricultural College and lectured at the Saskatchewan Agricultural College.

Noel Turnour

He received the Croix de Guerre for bravery or military virtue on the battlefield.

Robert Service

He reported from the front for the Toronto Star and wrote a book of mainly war poetry called The Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, in 1916.

George Cosc

George Cosc of Pincher Creek, Alberta served with the Canadian Mounted Rifles in England and France from 1915 to 1918.

Alex Woodworth

He was wounded three times while manning a machine gun during a battle at Hill 62 in Belgium.