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Hugh Cairns

“Hughie said he’d get fifty Germans for that” and added, “I don’t think he ever planned to come back after Abbie got killed.”

Annie Foster

Annie received a notice saying her husband was killed in action on October 14, 1918, only three weeks before the Armistice.

George William Wood

“Why did he mislead Maudie? I can think of a number of reasons. I wouldn’t want my family to worry.”

James Alonza Wood

He received the Military Cross for leading men through the Battle of Vimy Ridge without losing a man.

Kenneth Jenne

Kenneth Jenne enlisted June 18, 1917 from Montreal and served as a private with the Canadian Motor Machine Brigade.

Edmund Earle Ingalls

Lance Corporal Edmund Earle Ingalls enlisted in April 1916 and served with the 87th Battalion.

James Vesey Boswell

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Lawrence Mathews

Lawrence Mathews was a private with the 18th Battalion. He was killed in France on April 12, 1917.

John Diefenbaker

He was injured in a training accident and never served in a combat role during the war.

Ernest Hermon Hawthorne

Before he enlisted on October 20, 1915, he graduated from the Manitoba Agricultural College and lectured at the Saskatchewan Agricultural College.