The Voice of North Grenville
The North Grenville Times
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November 7, 2024
Vol. 12 No. 44
Young men at war a century ago
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The photograph above shows a bunch of young men of Canada taken somewhere in France more than a century ago. How many of these men came home to Canada after 1918 is unknown, and there is a genuine pathos when looking at the picture to wonder about who they were, where they came from, and what their fate was during those ter-
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member of the Kemptville Legion. Walter died in 1959. When he came to write a caption for this photograph, Walter simply wrote “Canadians”. Thanks to his work in extremely dangerous conditions, Walter has left us a visual record of the men and the times in which they lived and died. It brings home to us today exactly what was invovled in taking part in that con-
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rible days of World War I. The photograph was taken by Walter Tuck, one of several now in the keeping of the North Grenville Historical Society. Walter himself was originally from Ipswich in England, and worked as a photographer before the war. Following his time as a war photographer in France, he moved to Kemptville in 1921, where he opened a studio on Prescott Street and became a founding
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flict, far from their homes and families. In this issue of the Times, we remember the men of World War I, which started 110 years ago. And not only the local young men from this region, but the forgotten veterans, those Indigenous men who enlisted and fought and died for a country that denied them basic civil rights. Theirs is an amazing story that also needs to be remembered.
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