George Anderson

He became Second-in-Command of the 120th Battalion Training Centre in Regina during the Second World War.

Colin Bond

Nicknamed "Shorty," he was selected to be a runner during the war and given the important duty to keep up communications between headquarters and men in the field when shelling disabled the signal lines.

Francis Bourne

He completed all the bugle duty for the first half of the voyage to England, because the other five buglers on board the ship were seasick.

Harry Brice

He was sent on a secret mission to debug explosives on a bridge while under sniper fire to allow the Allies to advance on German positions.

James Howcroft Butterworth

After his family and many friends welcomed him home at the train station, he gave them all the souvenirs he had collected during the war, not wanting to keep any for himself.

John Hamilton Close

He and an officer risked their lives running on an open road under enemy fire to the canteen to get liquor for the officers and chocolate bars for the soldiers.

Frank Benjamin Conrad

After the Second World War, he was the first District Administrator at Veterans Affairs Canada's District Office in Charlottetown, PEI.

John Percy Copp

He received the Military Cross, which was pinned on him by King George V at Buckingham Palace.

Clennell Haggerston ‘Punch’ Dickins

He was Canada's most famous bush pilot, becoming one of the first pilots to fly an air-mail run into northern Canada.

Ronald Dunn

He was one of the few in the 1st Battalion of the Newfoundland Regiment who survived the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel on July 1, 1916, a day when the regiment suffered a casualty rate of 85 percent.

Wilfred Dancy Ellis

Until he died at age 100, he was the last surviving member of the Canadian Corps Cyclist Battalion, which was nicknamed the "Gas Pipe Cavalry."

John Stephen “Jack” Featherstone

He taught himself to shoot a gun as a young boy on the family farm and was an excellent sharp-shooter in the war, winning many competitions at training camps.

Whitfield Ganong

As company clerk, he was given the enjoyable task to deliver mail to the soldiers at the front line who were eager to receive news from home.

Patrick William Gleason

When wounded during the war, he was helped along to a dressing station by a badly wounded Japanese-Canadian soldier from an adjacent battalion after many other soldiers had passed him by.

George Frederick Hatch

Initially hesitant to join the Air Force during the war, he became an avid aviator and flying instructor later in life, and operated a flying school and charter service in North Carolina and Virginia.

John Arthur Huckerby

He excelled in training camp, and was appointed instructor in physical training and bayonet fighting with the 46th Battalion.

Donald Finlay MacKay

He received an honorary mention as a marksman when he far exceeded the minimum requirements needed to qualify as a sniper in the army.

Campbell MacLellan

He was saved from having his leg amputated thanks to a skilled young American doctor who was practising in a British field hospital to gain some experience.

James Neil MacLeod

He agreed to be a bicycle courier although he had never learned to ride a bicycle, and had many comical mishaps along the way.

Charles Darwood Skeates

He operated his own barbering business all of his life, and served as a barber with the RCAF in England during the Second World War.

Allan A ‘Spike’ Smith

He was an excellent machine gunner, hitting bullseye more frequently than any other gunner during competitions between machine gun crews in training camps.

Donald Robert Stevenson

A machine gunner, he was issued hip rubber boots for walking in trenches, which were so muddy during rainy periods that occasionally he got stuck and needed to have someone pull him out.

Willian John Sully

He was a runner and was wounded three times, narrowly escaping death while carrying a message for his officer under shell-fire so heavy the bullets resembled a hailstorm.

Brenton Harold Turner

Ignoring the army's orders to turn in all cameras, he hid a camera in his clothing and took photos of routine life as a soldier during the war. Requesting his family to send cigarettes, they complied by sending rolls of film instead.

George Vale

His tin helmet prevented a shrapnel wound in the head, and he was saved from drowning by a comrade who used his cavalry cloak to pull him out of a shell hole filled with water.

Thomas Wood

After the war, he was a sign painter and lettering artist for Coca-Cola Co. for about 40 years.

Percy Young

A lot of men in his unit, although forbidden, left the camp in search for food as there were no rations for them for several days. He was sent out to London to collect three of the men but returned with 39 instead.