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Wilhelmine Kate Dennis

For women in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, France symbolized not just romance, but opportunity.

John Diefenbaker

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

Noel Turnour

He received the Croix de Guerre for bravery or military virtue on the battlefield.

Robert Service

He reported from the front for the Toronto Star and wrote a book of mainly war poetry called The Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, in 1916.

George Cosc

George Cosc of Pincher Creek, Alberta served with the Canadian Mounted Rifles in England and France from 1915 to 1918.

Arthur Roy Brown

He has been credited with killing German fighter pilot Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, widely known as the “Red Baron.”

Henry Norman Bethune

In April, during the second battle of Ypres, he was wounded in his left leg by a shrapnel shell that exploded nearby.

Sir Samuel Hughes

In the beginning, Sam Hughes had a very good war.

Henri Chassé

A soldier and a man of action, Henri Chassé preferred life in the trenches to the monotony of the barracks.

William (Billy) Avery Bishop Jr.

Bishop is Canada's most celebrated First World War pilot.