On November 15, 1918, Gordon Rutherford wrote about his experiences in Mons, France, before and after the armistice. “The night before ‘Cease Fire’ was given we fired a few brigade salvos over Mons. Fritz was on one side and we were on the other. On the whole there was very little shooting going on. The next morning there was a triumphant march through the city and I was one of the lucky ones detailed to go,” Rutherford wrote. “There were a few from each unit there all congregated at the ‘Grand Place’, where General Currie spoke a few words to the troops.”

Rutherford, who went overseas at age sixteen, eventually returned to Canada. He set graduated from medical school and set up practice in Chatham, Ontario. He died in 1932 and his family believes his death was due to the horrors he saw at Passchendaele.

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