I'm so tickled to have just found record of my Grandfather's WW1 enlistment in Archivianet...this man is Rifleman Edward Smith's Father.

http://data4.collectionscanada.ca/ne...e.html&r=1&f=G

PRIVATE JOSEPH SMITH
C.M.R. C.E.F.
Regimental # 1072219
His enlistment date is 1917!!!
(why so long after the war began?)

His birth year is listed as 1882 ... but all my records and info say it's actually 1883.

I think of all the FATHERS ... what that must have been like having been through what their sons are going through now, and ..... well. Fathers who have "been there" must have a very deeply intense and special pain and pride in their children soldiers.

Incredible.

"All my relations" Karmen