Wes Krause is the volunteer curator of the South Alberta Light Horse Regiment at Patterson Armoury. Krause stands in the museum in a World War One trench.
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces keep guard at the cenotaph in Riverside Veterans Memorial Park as part of the Remembrance Day Ceremony.
population enlisted to serve in the First World War had a lot to do with loyalty and the royal connection, said Bruce Shepard, Esplanade museum curator. There was a strong sense of fighting for king and country.
Krause says there was the lure of excitement too because they were not as informed as we are today about the horrors of wars.
For the wives and children who remained in Medicine Hat there was a significant
social impact. They did what they could from a distance to support their soldiers. For the soldiers who survived and returned home there were physical and emotional wounds, which impacted families and the community.
By January 1916, the federal government had announced Canadian troops would be boosted to half a million, effectively doubling the work for organizations such as the Patriotic Fund Committee, the Canadian Red Cross and the Daughters of the Empire.
On Jan. 22 that year the News reported an expected increase in the intensity of warfare too.
“There were 60,000 Canadian soldiers who died in the First World War,” said Shepard. “That is the equivalent of the whole of Medicine Hat - gone.”
One hundred years later we are still affected by that war. Each Remembrance Day we pause for silence to reflect and remember the sacrifice so many made.
This summer the Alberta Light Horse Regimental Museum at Patterson Armoury in Medicine Hat will open to the public.
A First World War exhibit will open at the Esplanade on Aug. 4 and run through to April, 2015. ■
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