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Colin Fraser Barron

“The remarkable dash and determination displayed by this N.C.O. in rushing the guns produced far-reaching results...”

Arthur Livingston

“I had no feeling in them and was sure they had amputated both. I was thrilled when I saw them intact.”

Alan J. Hanchard

When he joined the 53rd Battalion at age seventeen, he had no idea the war would last for four years and be such a deadly conflict.

Irene and Gertrude McGillicuddy

When the United States entered the war in 1917, the sisters enlisted in the American military.

Albert Bennett

Albert Bennett of Nelson, British Columbia, enlisted in 1915 and served as a private with the 47th Battalion.

William Marshall Downey

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

Louis Boyer

At the time, Aboriginal people were banned from legions and Boyer was Metis.

George Grassie Archibald

During the war, Frank Stanfield sent Archibald, later a major of the 20th Battalion, letters to update him on Canadian politics.

Hugh R. Dale-Harris

“The men who escaped say the last they saw of him he was firing his revolver at the Germans at about 40 yards.”

James Wilfred “Wicky” Ross

James Wilfred “Wicky” Ross of Belleville, Ontario lied about his age to enlist on April 13, 1916.