Sault Ste. Marie Celebrate 100! on Juno beach (Updated)

SooToday,com has received the following note and photos shown, from a loyal reader who travelled to Europe this spring:

I suspect it might have been the kids from White Pines who were heading up to the ceremonies at Vimy Ridge the next day but not sure.

I have attached pictures of the particular graves.

We also visited the Menin Gate in Ypres Belguim and have pictures of the names of the soldiers honoured there fromt he 49th regiment if anyone is interested.

Regards,

- Rhonda Hancherow

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Editor's note: another loyal reader of SooToday.com recently informed us that the 49th referred to in the cemetary visited by Rhonda and her husband was not, in fact, the 49th Regiment that calls Sault Ste. Marie it's home.

That 49th Regiment was authorized in 1946, says Phil Miller.

The men buried in the graveyard visited by the Hancherows were from the 49th Battalion out of Edmonton, Alberta.

He wrote:

I received an email from France from two Saultites who are touring Normandy and they asked me to draw to your attention the factual error in the Juno Beach Story.

Depicted is a photo of the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium.

In the photograph are the names of the 49th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War One who have no known place of burial.

[There are some 27,000 men of that war so memorialized.]

The story confuses this Infantry Battalion from Edmonton, present at the front from early 1915 until war's end, with the 49th Field Regiment of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery here in Sault Ste. Marie authorized in 1946.

Thank you for bringing this to your reader's attention.

Phil Miller

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