My Great Grandfather was a corporal from Victoria who fought in Ypres II and was shot and gassed, but survived, after being reported KIA in the Vancouver Sun in May of 1915. He returned to fight later in the war, but was sent back to London to be a clerk as his wounds were limiting his ability to keep up with the rest of the troops. His younger brother was killed in February of 1916 in the preliminary fighting over the high grounds outside Ypres leading up the battle of the Somme that Spring.
My father was 16, signed up in Toronto as a semaphores , he was captured in Ypres during the first mustard gas and not released until Christmas 1920.
My Great Grandfather was a corporal from Victoria who fought in Ypres II and was shot and gassed, but survived, after being reported KIA in the Vancouver Sun in May of 1915. He returned to fight later in the war, but was sent back to London to be a clerk as his wounds were limiting his ability to keep up with the rest of the troops. His younger brother was killed in February of 1916 in the preliminary fighting over the high grounds outside Ypres leading up the battle of the Somme that Spring.