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The 26 from the Southwest Arm

The stories behind the photos of the First World War vets

Reprinted from The Packet, November 15, 2016

172 Horatius Seward
460 Alfred Francis Butler
1439 George Baker
1744 John Lambert
1745 Richard Spurrell
2740 Andrew Shaw
2785 Bernard Shaw
3128 Hubert Green
3507 Gilbert George Baker
3696 Esau Baker
4278 William James Shaw
4715 John Baker
4785 Absalom Marsh
4857 Eldred Churchill
Pte. John Vivian married Alice Smith and raised their family at Northwest Brook. (Photo courtesy Ross Vivian)
4973 Levi Jacobs
4975 Daniel Shaw
4979 Abraham Spurrell
4996 Arthur Jacobs
5100 Nathaniel Smith

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At the ceremony at Southwest Arm Academy, Little Heart’s Ease, on Nov. 10 to unveil the banners to tell the stories of veterans of the First World War, the audience was presented with mini biographies of each veteran.

Over the course of almost two years, Lester Green of the Southwest Arm Historical Society, sought out the information on each veteran. He obtained information from military sources, provincial archives and family members themselves — gradually building a more detailed picture of the military service of these 26 men.

Over the past year, Green — in collaboration with The Packet — published these stories weekly in the local newspaper and online.

 

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