{"id":82523,"date":"2017-05-16T11:04:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T17:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=82523"},"modified":"2021-12-29T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T01:26:09","slug":"the-dominion-british-cemetery-a-k-a-finding-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=82523","title":{"rendered":"The Dominion British Cemetery (a.k.a. Finding Jack)"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the posts on Jack McEachern and group of men from Cabri\/Mill Village who fought with the 209th Battalion, start here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

We went to the Dominion British Cemetery in Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt<\/a> to look for Jack McEachern. With me came blossoms from the Orchard Dump Cemetery… an offering of sorts… or a connection between two people: Max and Jack: the only two of the boys from Cabri to die in the Great War.<\/p>\n

But, this cemetery is hard to get to. Not only is the graveyard in the middle of miles and miles of open farmland, the roads… aren’t roads.<\/p>\n

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In my Jeep it would have been an easy journey; but, in a small rental car with little to no wheelbase, it was slow going and involved being wary of mud and potholes. And, you are competing for space with farming machinery.<\/p>\n

Eventually, we made it.<\/p>\n