Sincerely appreciative to all those Find-a-Grave members who have added memorials and photos to this site. Your efforts are greatly valued as we try and sift through family histories.

Also, we are so appreciative to all members of this site who have so graciously transferred management of memorials of our family members to our care. It means a great deal.

Found the following info on a fellow Find A Grave members profile (ID #49110141). As I've been asked to designate a couple of memorials for soldiers who died in service as "Veteran", I thought I'd add this note to explain my reasons for not adding the "V" status:

Please note: Find A Grave states: Only use the veteran designation "as appropriate according to the customs and culture of the individual being memorialized."

It has been confirmed that the Canadian Virtual War Memorial DOES NOT refer to those Canadians that they commemorate, and whose names have been entered in one of Canada's 8 Books of Remembrance, as 'veterans'. [Veterans Affairs Canada (Commemoration Division) statement: "With respect to those who have died in service, our department does not refer to them as Veterans. This is simply because they sadly never had the opportunity to become Veterans as they lost their lives..." because of their military service. "Instead, we commonly refer to these individuals as War Dead (if they died during the great conflicts of the 20th century) or the Fallen."]

Sincerely appreciative to all those Find-a-Grave members who have added memorials and photos to this site. Your efforts are greatly valued as we try and sift through family histories.

Also, we are so appreciative to all members of this site who have so graciously transferred management of memorials of our family members to our care. It means a great deal.

Found the following info on a fellow Find A Grave members profile (ID #49110141). As I've been asked to designate a couple of memorials for soldiers who died in service as "Veteran", I thought I'd add this note to explain my reasons for not adding the "V" status:

Please note: Find A Grave states: Only use the veteran designation "as appropriate according to the customs and culture of the individual being memorialized."

It has been confirmed that the Canadian Virtual War Memorial DOES NOT refer to those Canadians that they commemorate, and whose names have been entered in one of Canada's 8 Books of Remembrance, as 'veterans'. [Veterans Affairs Canada (Commemoration Division) statement: "With respect to those who have died in service, our department does not refer to them as Veterans. This is simply because they sadly never had the opportunity to become Veterans as they lost their lives..." because of their military service. "Instead, we commonly refer to these individuals as War Dead (if they died during the great conflicts of the 20th century) or the Fallen."]