Jerry Pettes died a month before his twenty-second birthday while serving as a private with the 1st Canadian General Hospital unit. He was fighting in an air raid in Etaples, France, when he died on May 9, 1918.

Prior to enlisting on September 29, 1917, from Knowlton, Quebec, he worked at a bank. He was the oldest of one brother and four sisters; his family remembers him as being humorous and mischievous. Jerry was especially close to his sister Kathryn Pettes and made her a photo album before he died. Though she was only three-years-old when he died, she has always missed him and has kept his memory alive by telling stories about him and donating his items to the Brome County Historical Society in Knowlton.

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