Partial human remains of 12 Canadian soldiers – medical specimens collected during the First World War – have been returned by a museum in Philadelphia. The partial human remains will be interred in the graves of the individual soldiers from whom the specimens were taken. The specimens were collected during the First […]
Author: Department of National Defence
Canadian Soldier Of The First World War Identified
The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces have confirmed that the grave of an unknown soldier in Bois-Carré British Cemetery, in Thélus, France, is that of Sergeant Arthur Melvin, a Canadian soldier of the First World War. Arthur Davidson Melvin was born on June 3, 1887, in […]

