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Passchendaele Museum locates sites where unknown WW I soldiers died

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

Edwin John Davis, 37, left his job as a glass worker to sign up with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Valcartier, Que, on Sept. 22, 1914.

He was among the 70 per cent British-born war volunteers in the first contingent of Canadians—from Wales, to be exact. He had served six years in the 41st Infantry Regiment, based in Cardiff, Wales, before emigrating to Canada, though it appears he may have been living south of the border in Virginia and came north when the First World War broke out.

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DND PHOTO PL 41719, STEVE SAUVE.

The five-minute flying ace

STORY BY PAIGE JASMINE GILMAR

Becoming an ace was a feat many Royal Canadian Air Force pilots strived for during the Second World War. Some attained the minimum five enemy aircraft shot down to became an ace in a week, while it took others only a day. But an ace in just minutes?

Flight Lieutenant Richard (Dick) Joseph Audet did just that on Dec. 29, 1944, while flying over Osnabrück, Germany—he took down three Fw 190s and two Me 109s.

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