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Veteran recounts family tradition of service in the military - The Toronto Observer
The man after whom James LeRoy is named, was wounded in the last month of the Great War. “He was in a lot of pain,” LeRoy said of his grandfather. James A. LeRoy, an 18-year-old from a farm near Belleville, Ont., served and was wounded in the second battle of Cambrai, in France, in October 1918. “He had never experienced … combat and the life in a trench wasn’t easy,” his grandson added. James LeRoy Jr. serves as chaplain with the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 11, in East York, where members staged a parade and remembrance service on Nov. 6.
Sami Koljonen