Unlike my maternal grandfather (J. Kennedy) I knew my paternal grandfather well, up until he died in 1966.

This is a special tribute to my Grandfather and it comes on the 90th Anniversary of Vimy Ridge, France.

After much research and digging in Canadian War records I have found out the following. A lot of this is still unobtainable. However, I have been given the link to The war diaries of the

Born in Hamilton, ON, in 1897 he spent his boyhood on the prairies. In 1915, he enlisted for overseas service with the 51st Battalion, C.E.F.