I "borrowed" this from the Dennis Clan facebook page.
My cousin, Della, posted it.
Grandpa was born 25 December 1893. "All of the boys except Beecher went out to work as soon as they finished elementary school. Stanley and Percy took up carpentry, and worked under Wilfred Maynard in the construction of at least one house in Birch Hill, PEI. They were working in the United States when the Great War, now known as World War I, broke out in 1914. Both of them came home, enlisted in the army, and went overseas. While serving in France on railroad construction crews, they answered a call for volunteers to go to the Middle East. One could write much about their adventures there, including Percy's close call with malaria, which he contracted while their unit was encamped in a mosquito-infested valley in nothern Palestine..."
Page 13, The Dennises of Port Hill Farm, Arnett Dennis, 2000.
Grandpa stayed in France.
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