Final Post
So, that's the story of Pte Richard Armer of London Ontario. He left a wife and three children. As sad a tale as it is, it is not singular. Many families lost fathers and brothers. Some lost daughters who were serving as nursing sisters or in the Volunteer Aid Detachment. The affect on Canada was devastating as a generation was gutted. Omnipresent cenotaphs across our country attest to that sad fact.
Mabel never married again.
Billie married and had three children of his own and died in 1997. He worked at Scott-McHale as a shoe maker.
Margaret married. She was an accountant at CFRB radio. She died in 2002 in Forest Ontario.
And the baby Dorothy who was born while Richard was overseas, became a court stenographer. She married. She passed away in 2003.
Many of their descendants still live in Western Ontario and we again, thank them for their generous permission to use the materials that they inherited.
Thank you for following Pte Richard Armer
John P Sargeant
26 June 2013
From Mabel's to Richard's
Just for fun I ran the locations of Richard's and Mabel's homes in Ulverston on Google Earth. They only lived about 5 minutes from each other. Here's the Google Earth Map. Richard's home was on Clarence Street (yellow marker) and Mabel's on Sunderland Terrace (red marker)
Restoration of Ulverston War Memorial
It is noted that the War Memorial in Ulverston is being renovated. Dick's name never did appear on the Memorial. See post of the 9th of April 2013
http://www.ulverstoncouncil.org.uk/viewnews.php?id=85
Richard's name does not appear on the Ulverston War Memorial
Many thanks to Shaun Taylor of Ulverston UK for the use of the photo.
87 1/2 Wellington London today
This is the approximate location of the home Mable occupied in 1918. The house no longer exists and has been replaced by businesses. This is actually the intersection of Wellington Rd and South Street in London. I am looking for a photo taken near that time of this location. If anyone has one, please contact us.
ANNOUNCEMENT
We want to thank everyone who has been following the letters of Richard Armer.
There are a few more letters spread over the next few months. Rather than publish them when they were actually written we will now publish them sequentially until the end of the series.
Again, thank you for being interested in this unique love story that was all too common in those horrible days of the Great War.
John P Sargeant
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