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Hey folks, welcome to the battles of the First World War podcast.

Returning to the podcast today is Michelle Gravel, my French-Canadian friend, and he was raised

in Ontario, Canada. He has worked in construction sales since before 1995.

Michelle visited the Somme battlefield somewhat by mistake in 1984 when he was 16, and there

he discovered the cemeteries. And so began a decades-long passion for World War I history.

Michelle, as you will recall, is the author of several books on World War I. You may not have heard of him,

as his books have been published in France, and so they are, of course, in the French language.

Michelle, thanks for coming back on the show. Well, hi, thanks for having me, and I hope this is

of interest to your viewers. Yeah, so let me just go ahead.

So for folks, there's a video version here that you're probably not going to want to miss.

I'm about to start sharing some stuff here. And just a moment. Okay. And our first question.

So, Michelle, tonight, we're going to talk about a gentleman named John Stevenson Youngson.

Tell us how you came to, quote, unquote, meet this gentleman.

Well, I have a museum in my flat, and I have a display on the Black Watch, Canadian and Scottish Black Watch.

And then I came across a vendor who had a Queen South Africa medal and a 1915 star and a Great War ID tag to the 42nd battalion which was the

Canadian bathe it was the second contingent of the Canadian Black Watch in the Great

War okay uh and they were they they were very badly uh that the guys next experienced antiquarian, but the description wasn't quite right.

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