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Ernest Edward Boyce

He was put in charge of a POW near Amherst, Nova Scotia, likely due to his advanced age—he was fifty-years-old when the war ended in 1918.

Fred Armstrong

He was shot in the leg while running across an open field and was sent to a hospital in England before he returned to Perth in 1919.

Henry (Harry) George Rogers

He was captured and sent to German POW camp at Clausthal. While there, he put his civil engineering degree to use by helping create an escape tunnel.

Joseph Francis (Frank) MacDougall

Joseph MacDougall made it as far as England before he was sent back to Canada because of an injury he endured on the farm before enlisting.

Philip Ambrose McRae

On June 2, 1916 Philip Ambrose McRae was reported missing in action.

Alec Aitken

Violet's father left for war before she was born, and was not too happy about sharing her mother when he returned.

Alexander Murray

She was left for three years to lament over the minutes leading up to the deaths of her sons.

Archibald John Harrison

“If anyone had an excuse to remain at home he had.”

Arthur Frederick Boniface and his wife Rose Rands

“My mother said that he could never become reconciled to the changing roles of women in society following the war.”

Peachland Canoe Team 1910

The Great War was soon to decimate the team, and many of them never returned.