LETTER

Aylmer Veterans - Marking of graves for Remembrance Day 2018

Those who served in WWI and returned to Canada have now passed into history and in many cases have been forgotten. Canada’s last WWI veteran Mr. John Babcock died at the age of 109 in February 2010. Unlike those killed in battle and buried in Europe whose graves are well-marked and maintained, our returned veterans lie for the most part in ordinary graves scattered throughout the land, unrecognized for the remarkable sacrifices that they contributed. As a prelude to the Ringing of the Bells at sunset on 11 Nov 2018, a group of volunteers, Aylmer Legion members, Veterans and Serving Members placed a small Canadian flag on the graves of Aylmer Veterans at Saint-Paul and Bellevue Cemeteries on the morning of November 10, 2018.

Manon Grégoire-Fleury, Aylmer/Pontiac