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Norman Hendrie Mitchell

Dr. Norman Mitchell of the Royal Canadian Navy poses before the Great Sphinx and the Pyramids of Egypt in this undated Great War-era photo.

Daniel O'Connell

O’Connell was age forty-seven when he enlisted, although the birth date on his attestation papers would have made him only age twenty-four.

Charles Herman Rogers

Herman rode out into no man’s land to find a relative under his command and a sniper’s bullet grazed his temple leaving a visible scar.

Ernest Edward Boyce

He was put in charge of a POW near Amherst, Nova Scotia, likely due to his advanced age—he was fifty-years-old when the war ended in 1918.

Fred Armstrong

He was shot in the leg while running across an open field and was sent to a hospital in England before he returned to Perth in 1919.

Henry (Harry) George Rogers

He was captured and sent to German POW camp at Clausthal. While there, he put his civil engineering degree to use by helping create an escape tunnel.

Joseph Francis (Frank) MacDougall

Joseph MacDougall made it as far as England before he was sent back to Canada because of an injury he endured on the farm before enlisting.

Norman Mackay

He was one of five officers and about two hundred men taken prisoner by the Germans just prior to the end of the war.

Philip Ambrose McRae

On June 2, 1916 Philip Ambrose McRae was reported missing in action.

Alec Aitken

Violet's father left for war before she was born, and was not too happy about sharing her mother when he returned.