No. 5 Company (Carleton Place) 41st Brockville Battalion of Rifles.From left to right:
James Storey, William Dack, Donald Stewart, William Duff, Patrick Tucker — Photo from Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum
TOMORROW AT THE North Lanark Regional Museum in Appleton
Join us at the North Lanark Regional Museum tomorrow Sunday, November 8th, at 2:00 pm, for Rob More’s talk “Remembering WWI Men of Beckwith & Lanark.” The final guest in our Fall Speaker Series, Rob More is a teacher and author and has published multiple books on local military history, including Lanark’s Legacy: The 46 WWI Casualties, The Lost Generation of Mississippi Mills: WWI Casualties, and Beckwith’s Heroes: An Anthology of WWI Veterans. Sunday is also the opening of our new exhibition on military history, Joy and Sorrow: 1945, which commemorates the end of WWII and the return to civilian life. Admission is by donation. Refreshments will be provided.
LEST WE NEVER FORGET