Warren Sommer

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Dr. Benjamin Marr, Langley’s sole physician when the First World War broke out, first trained for and served in the cavalry before transferring to the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Below: George Ripley on horseback; Dave Lattimer; Art Johnston; Jessie Wright and Archie Payne.

Langley’s Mounted Rifles

A century after the outbreak of the First World War, Warren Sommer recounts how Langley residents answered the call of King and Country

Dr. Benjamin Marr, Langley’s sole physician when the First World War broke out, first trained for and served in the cavalry before transferring to the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Below: George Ripley on horseback; Dave Lattimer; Art Johnston; Jessie Wright and Archie Payne.
This sombre cemetery at Fricourt contains the remains of 17,000 German soldiers who perished on the Somme. 12,000 of those buried here are interred in four mass graves.

Return to the Somme

Langley Author and historian Warren Sommer revisits the most infamous
battlefield of the First World War

This sombre cemetery at Fricourt contains the remains of 17,000 German soldiers who perished on the Somme. 12,000 of those buried here are interred in four mass graves.