In letters home to his sister, Charles Sedore spoke often about his living conditions but seemed cheerful despite having so little.
“We are in a cellar the only room in the house. We each have a blanket so that is not too bad,” Sedore wrote to his sister in October 1916. “They feed us good and give us tobacco cigarettes and rum,” he continued. “We have lots of rats and lice but they are good company.”
He served as a private in the 19th Battalion and saw the front line action at Passchendaele, Ypres and Vimy Ridge.
He was one of a family of fifteen children and started working at age eleven with a Grade 5 education. He became a blacksmith and worked at a shop in Zephyr, Ontario.
He enlisted in 1915 at age twenty-six and returned to Canada in May 1919.
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