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           1914 - 1918 
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We Honor ARCHIE WARREN BEARD veteran WWI 

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            1914 - 1918
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        3 million   citizens

Archie Warren Beard was a young Canadian British loyalist who volunteered for service in 1914 leaving his loving wife and three children in Canada to go and defend their native country of England in the 1st World War. The War was centered in Europe in 1914 after the assassination of the Austria-Hungary Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Bosnian-Serb student named Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo which provoked the hostilities. This triggered the July Crisis resulting in a declaration of war on the 28th of July towards Serbia by the Austria-Hungary Empire forcing Russia to mobilise to defend Serbia. Germany declares war on Russia and mobilises to support the Triple Alliance signed with Austria-Hungary and Italy although Italy never entered the war. France has the Franco alliance with Russia and after the war of 1871 and the loss of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany they did not hesitate to mobilise their troops in defence of Russia. England also has alliances with France and Russia the Entente Cordiale with France and the Anglo-Convention with Russia forming the Triple Entente and at 11pm on Aug 4th 1914  King George V of the United Kingdom including Great Britain and the Colonies declared war on Germany after they invaded the Belgium territory and so it began.

The Great War was responsible for the deaths of more than 10 million and another 29 million wounded or missing in action before the war ended on Armistice Day November 11th 1918 known to us as Rememberance Day.

Archie Warren Beard was one of 600,000 Canadian colonials that served in the war but unfortunately he was also one of more than 60,000 Canadians killed in action in the first world war.

Archie would never again see his wife Ruth, son Bill or daughters Vera and Mable or their children and families but Archie will always be dearly missed and loved by all who remember.

On Nov 11 remember the sacrifice Archie and many others made for us all.

Tribute Websites to Archie Warren Beard: Please Cick on the ''Links'' below

  ''MiltonHistoricalSociety.ca'';   ''Veterans.gc.ca'';   ''CWGC.org/BEARD-ARCHIE-WARREN'';   ''CanadianGreatWarproject.com/soldier'';   ''WarMuseum.ca Courcelette''; 

The King of England and World War I: 

 ''King George V'';   ''Battle of Flers Courcelette'';    ''First World War''; ''Causes of World War I'';

 Park Lawn is the final resting place for a majority of our family members on our Great-grandmother Mrs Jane Tutty's side of the family.Partial list includes Mrs Jane Tutty and husband Fredrick Tutty, sister Mrs Sarah Johnston and husband William Johnston and their daughter Mrs Jessie Harrison and her daughter Ruth,  Jane's oldest daughter Mrs Rose O'Donnell and husband Patrick,  Jane's 2nd daughter Mrs Dahlia Watson and husband Oliver and their daughter Mrs Beatrice Fisher, Jane's 3rd daughter Mrs Violet O'Brien and husband Joseph.

We are reseaching and editing results of the family graves of  Fountain, Barr, Holman and Careless of Fergus;  also Wheeler of Kingston; and  Shirvington of England; and O'Leary and O'Brien of Ireland as well as other members of the family and as soon as we receive information we will post it on this page of this Grave Site of The Family Ancestry.