The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is organizing events at key sites in the UK and Normandy as part of the Lighting Their Legacy leading up to the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
The light is a torch produced by students from McMaster University in Hamilton.
In this interview, Canadian Remembrance Torch founder Karen Hunter discusses her inspiration, how the Lighting Their Legacy torch was created, and the importance of remembrance.
My grandfather Francis Graham is buried at Ypres. He was in the
Battle of Passchaendale. There is a stone inside Menin Gate that his name and regiment on it.
My cousin Arthur Gunne is buried at the other big cemetery.
It is good to remember the sacrifice that the soldiers made to keep us free at home and to commend the soldiers that came home, many of them wounded for life.