48 Tag Results for homefront

Robert Munro

Becoming a soldier meant at least he would be cared for and there was the promise of sending money home.

Waller Family

Harry, Arthur, Robert, and Susan Butcher Waller.

Westminster Church Minuet Dance Group

The Westminster Church Minuet Dance Group performed in various festivals and concerts in the City of Winnipeg around the year 1916.

Tom Nowell

As a married man of age forty, he was considerably older than the typical recruit.

James Aitchison

The grimness of his own situation led him to fear that 1916 would be the ruin of not just himself, but his entire family.

Gerry Andrews

the Canada Food Board sponsored a nation-wide program to recruit high school students like Gerry Andrews as SOS for farm work.

William Marshall Downey

William Marshall Downey was knocked down from a bomb that exploded nearby and thrown into a pile of bodies.

Ida Collier

Ida Collier, from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, was a prolific letter-writer and corresponded with many friends fighting in the Great War.

Peachland Canoe Team 1910

The Great War was soon to decimate the team, and many of them never returned. Peachland lost more men per capita than any town in Canada.

Louis Victor Rutherford

A woman in Louis Victor Rutherford's hometown presented him with a white feather, a sign of cowardice, because he couldn’t enlist.

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