I was driving home on Monday and found this in a antique mall under a pile of trash. It truly pissed me off to see this just tossed in the box. This is one purchase i was very happy to make.
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Odd can't seem to find him in the the CWWG or the Canadian Book of remembrance?Comment
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Thank you for that. I hadn't even started researching the man yet. He was quite old at his time of enlistment. I wonder if he was a influenza casualty?
Originally posted by RobDekk View PostComment
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Henderson died after the war from illness due to military service.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/m...2jdheocn6v65f4Comment
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No worries. Hoping it would be more exciting...but it's still history.Comment
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Yes, they can't all be hero's! But it is history and that's what we are here for....
Once again, many, many thanks!
Originally posted by RobDekk View PostComment
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"Yes, they can't all be hero's!"
I dont think the manner of death, or in fact death itself, has anything to do with being a hero.Comment
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Interestingly, Henry Young was the man with the adjacent serial number - 526893. He also enlisted in Montreal in the CAMC, died in 1920 of pleurisy, at age 39.
I'd gues that both were deemed to old or perhaps not fit enough to serve in the infantry and were put to work as ward orderlies or something similar which exposed them to various diseases. Easy to see how TB would be directly attributable to war service in a medical unit but I wonder whether Young's 'pleurisy' was of similar origin.Comment
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