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Anonymous

Do you know who this family is?

Frank, Fred, and Albert Deacon

Of the six brothers, three joined the war effort while the other three William, Thomas and George stayed home and looked after the family farms.

Ernest Ellis Stoddard

Ernest had been hit by a shell in the head and neck and then buried under falling mud and debris.

Ernest Henry Aldwinckle

“About four years [after my father died], I was still known as a war orphan.”

Ernest Smith

He visited his parents in Port Hood to bring them news and consolation regarding his two brothers who had been killed three days apart in France.

Ernie Barrett

At Vimy Ridge, Ernie Barrett suffered many wounds from an shell explosion, which buried him in debris for eight hours.

Francis (Frank) Cuthbert Malcolm Cumming

A father of five, Francis Cuthbert Malcolm Cumming realized he wouldn’t make money from his crop, now demolished from a storm. So, he enlisted.

Frank W. Ellis

In Vancouver, Frank W.Ellis made artificial limbs for veterans who lost limbs during the Great War.

John "Jack" Dobson

When John “Jack” Dobson left Toronto to serve in the war, his wife Annie was pregnant with little Helen and they had three other youngsters at home.

John Francis Moore

His wife Malvina Moore and three daughters moved back to Ottawa, where they previously lived, and waited for Moore to return home after the war.