A woman in his hometown presented Louis Victor Rutherford with a white feather, a sign of cowardice, because he couldn’t enlist. Not even eighteen-years-old, Rutherford watched his three brothers, Alexander, David, and Thomas join the war while he stayed home to help his widowed mother. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1899, Rutherford grew up in Stonewall, Manitoba. David died of influenza on January 18, 1918. Thomas was shot and died on April 9, 1917, at Vimy Ridge.

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