Source: CTV News, November 4, 2018
A forgotten First World War veteran is getting a gravestone 79 years after his death — thanks to a group of schoolchildren and a historical society in New Westminster, B.C.
For nearly eight decades, William Stevenson had been lying in an unmarked grave in New Westminster’s Fraser Cemetery. When he died from a stroke in 1939, he had no living family there and had no one to pay for a proper headstone.
The Society of the Officers of Honorable Guard is a non-profit group that aims to educate youth about various wars and B.C. history,and regularly take students on trips to the cemetery.
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