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5 October 1916 Pte Nelson Pierce

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Nelson Pierce was born at Ailsa Craig, Ontario on  4 May 1896. He was the youngest of the nine children born between 1877 and 1896 to Moses (a beekeeper) and Salome Pierce.  Nelson became a beekeeper, like his father, and was working in this trade at the 1911 Census when he was 15.  He enlisted at London, Ontario on 1 November 1915. By October 1...


The Camera Returns No.7 by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall

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[This edition of The Camera Return was originally published in Stand To! No.29 in the Spring of 1989. Bob and Steve had taken their photographs to match the view in December 1988.] Then >  Nine British soldiers resting in the main street of Aveluy, 2 km north of Albert. 25 March 1918 © IWM  Q8640. To make a match for present day comparisons...