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Duncan Brothers

He made a German plane land near British lines and the pilot was taken as a POW. “It was one of the most thrilling acts in Canadian aerial records."

Frederick “Fred” Ambo

He fought at Vimy Ridge, where he was hit with shrapnel on April 12, 1917 and died of his wounds on April 30 at age 27.

Joseph Walker

Joseph Walker served in the Royal Canadian Regiment until he was sent to England to recuperate from a wound or sickness.

John Henry Rawsthorne Slack

During the First World War he entertained throughout Europe as a member of Billet 13, a military entertainment group with the 83rd Queen’s Own Rifles.

Russel Sage Falconer

Russel Sage Falconer served as a private with the 33rd Battalion.

Edward Shirtraw

Edward Shirtraw enlisted on September 10, 1915, at age 38. He served with the 44th Battalion and the 176th Tunnelling Company.

Sir Arthur William Currie

“Currie used … organization and covering support of all kinds to the maximum in order to ensure the lowering of the cost of lives.”

James Cleland Richardson

For some ten minutes, fully exposed, he “strode up and down outside the wire, playing his pipes with the greatest coolness.”

Ellis Wellwood Sifton

Sifton’s experiences in the trenches mirrored those of thousands of other young Canadians.

Samuel Lewis Honey

After repulsing four counter-attacks he went out alone after dark, located a German post, and took a party to capture it.