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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.

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."

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.

Arthur Livingston

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

William Marshall Downey

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

Thomas “Tom” Archibald Meredith

He returned to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1919 and suffered from fallen arches and heart palpitations brought on from his service in France.