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Not far from Vancouver, in an apartment in Pitt Meadows, Yvonne McDonald was helping her elderly neighbour pack up her things to move to new accommodations.
The soldier's service was now twice fulfilled and the neighbour was ready to let him go. McDonald, a genealogy and history sleuth asked if she could take him home and maybe find his.After doing some surface searches of war records Yvonne had narrowed down some possibilities to the young man’s identity.“Pembroke” is very vague when it comes to the military.
This would be next to impossible. There was no identifying regiment. Or era. It appeared to be from World War One where 650,000 men were sent to war and 66,000 died, many without the opportunity to leave a lineage. On September 15, 1917, Private Pembroke, all five-foot-three and 130 pounds of him, was off to England to be mobilized to France.
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