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Lest We Forget - The Veteran on the Canadian Ten Dollar Bill - 11.11.11
Ever look at your currency and wonder about the story etched on each bill  and what it represents?.......How many of us even look at our bills that carefully?  Probably not many - unless we're thinking its a counterfeit $50!  Well If you look at the back of a Canadian $10 bill, you will see an old veteran standing at attention near the National War Memorial in Ottawa. 
 
                                                    THE VETERAN ON OUR TEN DOLLAR BILL
                                                                                     11.11.11.
 
         
 
 
His name is Robert Metcalfe and he died last month at the age of 90.
Its rather remarkable that he managed to live to such a ripe old age, given all the things that happened to him in the Second World War. Born in England, he was one of the 400,000 members of the British Expeditionary Force sent to the mainland where they found themselves facing the new German warfare technique - the Blitzkrieg. He was treating a wounded comrade when he was hit in the legs by shrapnel. En route to hospital, his ambulance came under fire from a German tank, which then miraculously ceased fire. Evacuated from Dunkirk in HMS Grenade, two of the sister ships with them were sunk.
When he recovered, he was sent to allied campaigns ... more

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