This is the third of my explorations into the wartime service and experiences of the family of my maternal grandparents. John’s brother George died at the Second Battle of Ypres, in the first major battle fought by Canadian troops in World War One. Having lied about his age, my grandfather spent two years in the Canadian Forestry Corps in the Somme Valley in 1917-18, before being transferred into the infantry for the last offensive against the Germans in October 1918. Having discovered what I could, it was time to turn my attention to Second World War.
