Gosh! I am so, so grateful to you for taking this interest in my puzzle. I shall have to make it a bit clearer though!
At 48 Princes Street,Ayr,lived my great grandparents,Thomas and Mary McCracken.They had several children.One of them,Mary Mccracken,was my granny who left Ayr with her husband to start a life in Port Arthur.There they had two children,my Uncle Fred and mum.
From the remaining children,Robert and Thomas both enlisted in the Canadian regiments I am searching for.The information I posted above is what my mum told me shortly before she died,so I have no one to verify details with,nor any written records to refer to. She was so proud that Robert,who was too young to enlist in a British Regiment,still wanted to help the war by joining a Canadian one instead.
He - I was told - was a motorbike despatch rider,who was bably injured and looked after by the regiment for the rest of his life in Canada.Isn't that amazingly generous?Mum told me that after he had joined up his other brother Thomas did the same,and I was always told that it too was a Canadian regiment,whether the same one or not,I was never told.Mum said that it was this Thomas who received the MM and DCM,although i am not sute what these are,or would have been awarded for!
I shall follow up the sites you gave me today,but I do know that Thomas ended his days in the Vancouver Cemetery.Assumed from this that he lived in Vancouver.I am so,so grateful for your help.I am completely new to all this and live in England.
