precise time was a third man, a sergeant major. Within minutes, the building 
     
     received a direct hit from a German shell which killed the three men and 
     
     destroyed the building. The men were buried beside George Wilkinson in Vrely 
     
     Communal Cemetery near Amiens. Wilbert McInnis remembers remarking at the 
     
     time; “George will not be alone, now.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Some of the Prince Edward Island men were working in the west at the out- 
     
     break of the war and enlisted in Calgary, Alberta such as Charles Edward (Ned). 
     
     McInnis and Henry (Paul) Costain. Other men were Henry (Job) Costain who 
     
     joined the Canadian Forces in British Columbia, and George (Elijah) Costain 
     
     who is thought to have served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and may have 
     
     reached England. William A. Rix arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, beginning his 
     
     overseas service, when he became seriously sick with scarlet fever which later 
     
     developed into pleural pneumonia. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cecil Palmer enlisted in the 105th Infantry Battalion and returned safely 
     
     home at the end of the hostilities. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cecil Palmer enlisted in the 105th Infantry Battalion and returned safely 
     
     home at the end of the hostilities. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Harry (Job) Costain was one of the young enlistees in the 105th Infantry 
     
     Battalion who suffered severe wounds in 1918 near the end of the war, and spent 
     
     nine months in an English hospital. A German shell landed near him showering 
     
     him with steel shrapnel wounding him to such an extent that he was not required 
     
     to return to the front lines. After the war, Harry (Job) Costain went to Ponoko, 
     
     Alberta where he was engaged in farming. During a visit which Wilbert McInnis 
     
     made to him, Harry (Job) complained about the pain which he endured in his 
     
     feet and legs preventing him from continuing with the heavy work of farming. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It had been very fortunate that Harry (Job) had'bought the old house and 
     
     farm in Alberta. In later years, oil was discovered on the farm and Harry (Job) 
     
     sold is his oil rights for $220,000. He is now living in a nursing home in Alberta. 
     
    
   
   
    
     John Guy McInnis also enlisted in the 105th Infantry Battalion but served 
     
     throughout the war with the 25th Battalion of Nova Scotia Highlanders. He was 
     
    
   
   
    
     wounded for the first time at Hill Seventy on August 8, 1917 while serving as a 
     
     machine gunner. On the same day and month, August 8, but one year later, 
     
     1918, Guy McInnis was so severely wounded that he was near death when some 
     
     advancing Australian found him and carried him to the battlefield medical 
     
     station. Except for this sudden intervention by an Australian, who carried Guy 
     
     on his back to the doctor, John Guy McInnis would have died beside his machine 
     
    
   
   
    
     gun. All his life, he carried shrapnel so close to his lung that an English doctor 
     
     told him never to allow any doctor to operate on him to remove those pieces of 
     
    
   
   
    
     steel. 
     
    
   
   
    
     George Robert Goldsmith Wilkinson, 713216, served in the 25th Infantry 
     
     Battalion, 5th Brigade, in the 2nd Canadian Division. The 25th Infantry Bat- 
     
     talion was part of a regiment of Nova Scotia Highlanders. Support for the 25th 
     
     Battalion was provided by the North Nova Scotia Highlanders. 
     
    
   
   
    
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