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Martha Chagnon Vadenais

She received a medal for her devotion to duty in the prevention of epidemic diseases and was mentioned twice in despatches.

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.

Bruce Woodrow Walls

At age nineteen, he went missing on a mission while flying a Lancaster Bomber from Italy to France. His body was never discovered.

John Sammiel Hall

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

Aime Panneton

His favourite niece, Mildred Irene Clark, was devastated when he was killed in action June 3, 1916 in Belgium.

Duncan Brothers

He made a German plane land near British lines and the pilot was taken as a POW. “It was one of the most thrilling acts in Canadian aerial records."

George Buchanan Foster

Lieutenant George Buchanan Foster was a flying ace and credited with seven aerial victories that earned him a Distinguished Flying Cross.