Thank you for sharing your family history. My great-uncle, John Stanley Holmes served with the 38th Battalion (Eastern Ontario) Canadian Expeditionary Forces in WWI. He was wounded by German machine gun fire on September 2, 1918 at The 2nd Battle of Arras (France). He died of his wounds on September 9, 1918, and is buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, in Pas de Calais, France. I also had two uncles who served in the U.S. Army overseas in WWII, and my brother was a U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran who served in the 25th Infantry Division (Tropic Lightning), in Cu Chi ‘66-’67.
Thanks for your story. I’ve been educating the grandkids about family history, writing names on the back of old photos, & making sure the next generations know the family history & don’t forget what made them who they are.
They even had a great, great grandfather & his brother who walked to California in 1850 & came back with enough to last his & his whole extended family through the entire depression.