Private William Stuart Ritchie: A remembrance

I first visited the Canadian Great War battlefields in the spring of 2006.
My partner Marley and I, together with our good friend Jim Miller, embarked on a mini-war tour in Belgium and France following a conference in Great Britain.
We all had ancestors who served in the Great War and never returned home.
In fact, we were the first family members to visit their memorials.
Jim’s maternal grandfather, John Rodger, died in the 1915 Battle of Loos and is remembered today in Dud Corner cemetery