The Home Front

In past years I have posted historical facts about Remembrance Day and the poem "In Flanders Fields".  Last year, I posted about my grandfather who spent the war aboard the HMCS Transcona.  This year I am posting about my paternal grandfather who served in a very different way.

Albert was disqualified from joining the military due to physical reasons.  He spent the war working at the Wallaceburg Brass Factory.  He supervised 100 people, primarily women, that made brass casings to hold fuses for bombs.

Once the war was over, Albert moved on the next chapter in his life.  The soldiers who had worked at the Brass before the war returned to reclaim their jobs.  And grandpa's department was discontinued because the casings were no longer required.  

Some of the workers he managed travelled from as far away as Oil Springs and Oakdale.  A family tie as we lived in Oakdale during my teen years.  In fact, grandpa once joined us for a supper at the church hall and reconnected with a few of the ladies that he had supervised at the brass.