My mother brought me this photo recently with a few folders of papers that belonged to the subject, my grandfather, George Washington Smith.
On the back of the photo, in my mother's handwriting, it says
May 1919 France
Private G.W. Smith
technical storekeeper
That's the first I've ever heard about my grandfather having that particular title/responsibility. The only story I'd ever heard before this was that he spent his 21st birthday (February 22, 1919) at a train station in France waiting to get back to his unit after delivering a truck back to its unit. In his WWII service file, there is a reference to the fact that he was a machine gunner in WWI, but my mother had never heard that.
In a few days, Library and Archives Canada will release another update on the scanning of WWI service files. I can't wait to learn how much closer they are to the Smiths!
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