Four Welbourn brothers joined the war in 1917 and all made it out alive.

Owen and Frank of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, were working with the Canadian Pacific Railway when they were drafted in 1917. Owen was rejected for having flat feet and Frank joined the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles only to be captured by Germans and taken as a prisoner of war. He survived the war and returned to Moose Jaw.

Frederick Russell Welbourn enlisted with the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve and served as a minesweeper in England. After the war he lived in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Bernard Welbourn enlisted with the Royal Navy in 1916 and served on the HMS Raider, a destroyer vessel that was armed with three four-inch guns, dual torpedo tubes and a two pounder pom pom. He later served on convoy duty in Norway and was later awarded money for obliterating four German mine sweeping destroyers. He returned to England and became an accountant.

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