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Canada / Re: Isaac Saunders-Kilkenny to Winnipeg
« on: Thursday 25 April 13 20:21 BST (UK) »
Like KD, Isaac was also my great uncle and I have been watching from afar with great interest. But the most amazing part of Isaac's story is his experiences in Nortern France and Belgium in WW1. I myself live in Kent, England and regularly visit the continent on holiday and day trips and most of the places mentioned in his battalion history are well known to me.
Isaac was very badly wounded at the battle of Passchendaele in Nov 1917. He spent many months recouperating but I think he suffered from the injuries right up to his early death at the age of 56.
The next time I drive through Belgium I will be thinking of him.
On the comment of 19 siblings I have heard that Isac's mother did actually have 22 confinements!
And on the question of family names my grandfather was also a Michael Saunders (b 1882 d 1962) and the second eldest of Isaac's brothers.
But many thanks to you all.
Bill Earls
Isaac was very badly wounded at the battle of Passchendaele in Nov 1917. He spent many months recouperating but I think he suffered from the injuries right up to his early death at the age of 56.
The next time I drive through Belgium I will be thinking of him.
On the comment of 19 siblings I have heard that Isac's mother did actually have 22 confinements!
And on the question of family names my grandfather was also a Michael Saunders (b 1882 d 1962) and the second eldest of Isaac's brothers.
But many thanks to you all.
Bill Earls