We Will Remember Them

These are photos of Private Joseph Wilmot of the 1st Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was shot in the leg in 1915 and he lay in no mans land, whilst he was there the Axis Forces gassed him. He was repatriated to Britain where he met my grandmother Edith, also in these photos with her children. He was one of the first people in the world to take up the Saxophone, and he moved between the UK and the USA/Canada by playing in ships bands to earn his passage.

Many of his friends and those who fought on the other side of the trenches, didn't get the luck of only being shot and gassed, he says in a letter to his brother, "I got it easy". Sadly they still lay in Flanders, but we will remember them.