This is my Grandfather, Modist Parisian. 1st Canadian Mounted rifles 249th battalion.
Here he is about 1920. He was in the 1st war, he was only 17, then he volunteered again for the 2nd war at 40 years.
I have all his war records from both wars, he almost died from the Spanish flu, then taking shrapnel in the head in the 1st nearly got him again. A metal plate was put in his head, not sure how they missed it but he then served overseas again in the 2nd.
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Virtually all men in Saskatchewan of age or close to age served in the Canadian military, I also had an Uncle who was a Japanese prisoner of war for 4yrs, he was a Canadian Royal rifle, they were only there for a week when they were captured and interned in Hong Kong.
I also had numerous other family who served in the WW2, Hitler referred to Canadians as a bunch of Cowboys and Indians, he wasn't wrong.
