A soldier scrambles down a communications trench as a shell bursts only a few feet away, August 1916. PHOTO: HENRY KNOBEL, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA000742
Private Alexander Johnston, killed in battle in 1918 at the age of 33, for decades was counted among the more than 19,500 Canadian First World War soldiers with no known grave. But in October he was finally given a funeral with full military honours and buried in France under a headstone inscribed with his name.
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