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Percy Andrew Lloyd Harden

“Him and I were standing in the trench together pointing at some Germans...one of them shot at us and caught Percy through the head.”

Crooks Family

“He always had a smile and laugh for there was sunshine in his heart.” Crooks died at age twenty-six at the Somme.

Richard William Mercer

“His children and grandchildren are only alive today because of this small miracle of this cigarette case.”

David John Rutherford

He was serving as a gunner with the Canadian Field Artillery when he died of typhoid on January 18, 1918.

Jerry Pettes

Though Kathryn was only age three when her brother Jerry died, she has always missed him and has kept his memory alive by telling stories about him.

Roy Spencer

He was dying in the mud when a soldier from his hometown recognized him and carried him more than a kilometer to the casualty clearing station.

William Hebenton

He served as a gunner with the 15th Brigade, 62nd Battery of the Canadian Field Artillery and spent most of the war in action near Arras and Lens.

John Sammiel Hall

He died as his battalion was attacking Hallu in the Llandovery Castle operation at the start of the Hundred Days Offensive.

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.”

William George Barker

Few Canadians are aware that Barker was, and still is, Canada’s most decorated war hero.