Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Circumstances of death registers – Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR. Surnames: Davy to Detro. Microform Sequence 27; Volume Number 31829_B016736. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 171. Page 215 of 1036.

Other – page from "The Red Vineyard".....

Photo of Wilfrid John Daze – second page of The Red Vineyard" mentioning Pte Daze

Newspaper clipping – SOURCE: The Ottawa Journal; Thursday, August 29, 1918

Grave Marker – Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England. Laying on Private Daze's grave on 4 July 2008 was a page of text enclosed by two sheets of hard plastic. The text reads: 'I stepped over to the wounded lad and a glance told me he had not much longer to live. I knelt quickly on one knee and pulled out the little round ID disc attached to the string around his neck. I looked at it and saw the letters RC. I remember throwing off my shrapnel helmet (tin lid, the lads call it) and it rattled hard on the road, though the noise was deadened by the rumble of passing traffic. Then I spoke to the lad, telling him I was a Catholic priest. Finding him conscious, I told him to make a good act of contrition for all the sins of his past life and then I would give him absolution. Then, as a great procession lumbered by, I pronounced the words of absolution and anointed him there on the roadside. In a little while he passed away peacefully. I copied from the little leather disc his name, number and battalion: Private W.J. Daze, No. 788567, 3rd Canadian Infantry Battalion. A few days later, I got his mother's address from the 3rd Battalion Orderly Room and wrote her how grace had come to the lad.'

Grave Marker – Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield.