Edwin served in the 18th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force and served in France. He was my maternal grandmother's brother and lived in London, Ontario when I was a child. I knew him very well and if you asked him about World War I he would talk about Paris and how beautiful it was. He never really talked about the war. Born in Aston near Birmingham, England in 1888, he came to Canada in 1905 and was the first of this family of five children all of whom eventually came to Canada.
He had twelve nieces and nephews living in Canada and the United States. Edwin is my only close Canadian Veteran of the Armed Forces.
Remembering my Great Uncle on this Remembrance Day along with all of the others who served during the wars in which Canada fought the Boer War, World War I and World War II, the Korean War, The Cold War, and The War in Afghanistan.
As a child we would walk in a double line to the local Church near Tecumseh Avenue Public School year after year if November 11 was on a school day, classroom after classroom and remember all those who had died in the two World Wars. May we remember them and cherish them forever.
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