Thomas “Tom” Archibald Meredith, front row and centre holding a pint and a nurse on his lap, on November 11, 1918, at the Shorncliffe Canadian Military Hospital. (Jack Meredith.)

Thomas “Tom” Archibald Meredith

He returned to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1919 and suffered from fallen arches and heart palpitations brought on from his service in France.

Thomas “Tom” Archibald Meredith enlisted March 1916 from Vancouver, British Columbia, and served as a private with the 72nd Battalion in France. On August 18, 1917, he was hit with shrapnel in his arm and leg.

He returned to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1919 and suffered from fallen arches and heart palpitations brought on from his service in France. He also still had shrapnel lodged in his back close to the heart.

Meredith worked as a rivet bucker for a shipyard then as a streetcar operator with the B.C. Electric Railway Company.

He died in 1985.

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