On Monday I will be remembering my grandfather, John Oswald Whitten who fought with the Brits in WW1. He was an Irishman who joined the Militia and later found himself fighting in France. He was later captured by the Germans where he spend the rest of the war in a POW camp taking care of the horses. After the war he exchanged his helmet with a German officer.
He got on a boat with his wife and and came to Canada where they settled on a farm in in Southern Manitoba. He kept that helmet in the root cellar of his farm along with his gun and medals he received. He would show them to us three kids when we come visit. Sadly all have gone missing.
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