We Will Remember Them: Major Alan Torrance Powell, DSO
Westmount, Quebec – 10 November 2021: Inspired by the book “Canada’s Dream Shall Be of Them – Canadian Epitaphs of the Great War,” by Eric McGeer and Steve Douglas, the RMR Foundation will be posting an epitaph each day during the annual Poppy Campaign that runs until 11 November 2021.
“WHILE THE RACES OF MANKIND ENDURE LET HIS EXAMPLE STAND”
Major Alan Torrance Powell DSO, 14th Battalion, April 19th 1918 (age 31)
Lest We Forget.
The above epitaphs are extracted from the book “Canada’s Dream Shall Be of Them - Canadian Epitaphs of the Great War,” by Eric McGeer and Steve Douglas, Wilfred Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ont., 2017.
