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Joseph Ernest Pagé

He must have been destined to return home to Knowlton and raise a family because two soldiers, one on each side of him, were killed.

Thomas Bower-Binns

In 1918 he was gassed, and suffered from its effects the rest of his life.

Viking Battalion

It was unusual for the Icelandic soldiers to be commissioned — only 3 percent of those who enlisted were named officers.

Thorarinn Finnbogason & Bjorn "Bud" Christianson

Arm in arm, Christianson carried the wounded soldier across the cacophony of mud away from the front, perhaps saving young Finnbogason's life.

Clair Addison Clendening

He golfed, hunted, and fished, and was at one time the president of the Manitoba Fish and Game Association.

Edward Vernon Callow

Callow, a shoemaker from Brampton, Ontario, enlisted on November 24, 1915, at the age of 19.

James Herbert Gibson

“We bombers practice throwing bombs, like a baseball player would keep in trim for the match."

Griffin and Charles Mulligan

Younger brother Charles suffered several bullet wounds near the end of August 1918 while fighting near Arras during the “Hundred Days Offensive.”

John Oliver

In Arras, his unit was in the houses on one side of the street and the German soldiers were on the other side.

Alcombrack Brothers

“The bodies of the dead soldiers were stacked like firewood.”