“I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.”
The First World War (WWI) 1914 - 1918
A global conflict which lasted from 1914 to 1918, and is considered one of the deadliest conflicts in history.
Your great, great, great, grandfather (from grandma's lineage) lived in the UK when George V was King of the United Kingdom. Your great, great, great, grandfather served as a medic during the war and survived to eventually see his family immigrate to Canada.
The Second World War (WWII) 1939 - 1945
A global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Your great, grandfather (from grandpa's lineage) lived in Italy when Benito Mussolini was Prime Minister of Italy. Italy joined the war as one of the Axis Powers in 1940, with a plan to concentrate Italian forces on a major offensive against the British Empire in Africa and the Middle East. British troops moved along the coast and on 22nd January, 1941, they captured the port of Tobruk in Libya from the Italians. Your great, grandfather was caught by the British and kept as a prisoner of war in Tobruk, Libya until the war ended. He survived to eventually see his family immigrate to Canada.
