This Page Last Updated on Friday December 16, 2011
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This Page Last Updated on Friday December 16, 2011
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NELSON B.C. CEMETERY Thanks to Gerry Rempel (C.D., CCFI-C) Fire Chief of the City of Castlegear (British Columbia), we now have a photograph of the grave stone for William Muir Laughton. Gerry is a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group (CEFSG) and we all try our best to assist each other in our search for family soldiers.
The grave stone refers to William's time with the Canadian Mounted Rifles in the Great War (WWI: 1914-1919) as do the records at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Canadian Virtual War Memorial. We have sent in the information to correct these records. Details will be updated on William's web page as they become available (William Muir Laughton). Gerry went back to see William again on Remembrance Day 2009 to place a poppy and provide a soldier's salute to the fallen. Our most sincere thanks to Gerry from taking the time, not only to undertake this gesture, but to do so on Remembrance Day .... for a family he has never met! (click on image for larger scale)
Thanks Gerry!! Subsequent to receipt of these photographs, I contacted the Common Wealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) in the U.K. concerning the error on the marker. The CWGC then contact Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) who acts on behalf of the CWGC in Canada. On March 11, 2011 I was contacted by Gerald Mayer of VAC who was coordinating the corrections to the grave stone. We discussed the changes and these were pre-approved with David Benson Laughton, the surviving son of William who resides in Ottawa, Ontario. The changes were approved, the work was completed and on November 1, 2011 Gerald Mayer sent us photographs, as I had requested, of the work in progress and the end result. Thanks to Gerald and his team for seeing to the completion of this project and to each of CWGC and VAC for authorizing the work. Following the erection of the new stone in the NELSON cemetery, our good friend Gerry Rempel and his daughter Geri-Lynn paid a visit to the cemetery on Remembrance Day November 11, 2011. A poppy was placed for William by Geri-Lynn and a series of new photographs was sent back for our family tree project. Thanks to Gerry and Geri-Lynn for taking the time to remember William Muir Laughton in this most special way. Below are a series of the photographs of the replacement project as it moved through VAC and out into the cemetery:
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