![George "Black Jack" Vowel signed up with the Calgary Highlanders in September 1914. They were with the 10th Battalion, and then the 13th Battalion after the 10th was decimated. He was an immigrant to Canada, coming as a young man with his family from the United States. He was born in Hays, Kansas. He earned the Military Medal at the Somme for Lewis gun work at Mouquet Farm.](https://thebigstory.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Ep96_RemembranceDay-300x169.jpg)
Remember the people. Not just the numbers or battles.
This weekend marks 100 years since the First World War ended. And when we reflect, we often turn to the scale of the war—millions of
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