A photograph of a service medal given to Jemima Scott in memory of her son, Alfred, n.d.
A photograph of a service medal given to Jemima Scott in memory of her son, Alfred, n.d.
Alfred was killed in action on Oct. 1, 1916, at 20 years of age. Following the Great War, Vaughan Township Council bestowed several medals to citizens demonstrating brave service from 1914 to 1918. Alfred was the youngest child of Jemima and Albert Scott, who came to Canada from England in 1906.
Soldiers' families spent the war years regularly thinking of their loved ones in the trenches and sent letters and care packages. They dreaded receiving a knock on the door by a telegram carrier with the message their family member had been wounded or killed in action.
City of Vaughan Archives: M994.3
A photograph of a service medal given to Jemima Scott in memory of her son, Alfred, n.d.
A photograph of a service medal given to Jemima Scott in memory of her son, Alfred, n.d.
Alfred was killed in action on Oct. 1, 1916, at 20 years of age. Following the Great War, Vaughan Township Council bestowed several medals to citizens demonstrating brave service from 1914 to 1918. Alfred was the youngest child of Jemima and Albert Scott, who came to Canada from England in 1906.
Soldiers' families spent the war years regularly thinking of their loved ones in the trenches and sent letters and care packages. They dreaded receiving a knock on the door by a telegram carrier with the message their family member had been wounded or killed in action.
City of Vaughan Archives: M994.3