Harry Palmer Grave, Voormezeele Enclosure #3 Cemetery, 1989
The first Canadian soldiers killed in WWI are buried here. They were
men of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry who went into action
near St. Eloi on the 6th of January, 1915.
On my first trip to Ypres, Belgium from Arras, France I went through Armentières
where a detour in the road took me by this cemetery. There was no paricular
reason for me to stop as the cemetery was rather ordinary in appearance
and I did not know of its historical significance until later. It was rather
spooky to find my name on this grave marker, especially because the dead
soldier had lived in my home city. So far as I know we were not related
except by name.