On Good Friday, 1917, Charles Stanley Lewis was in France close to the Western Front, four kilometres from Bethune. In a village he had purchased two of the pretty embroidered postcards that French women were selling to soldiers for a few pennies. Now in the trenches, Stanley wrote a few reassuring lines to his beloved family in Liverpool, left behind only a few weeks before. Nine weeks later, his brief life was over.
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The Lewis Family c. 1964 
Bill and David c. 1968 
Family barbecue c. 1988 
Mum, Scott, Heather, Liz & Ian c. 1988 
Andy Bryce, Bill Zaharoff, Bill Lewis c. 1990 
Margaret Lewis & Barb Lewis 
Audrey, Bill and Grandma c. 1990 
Dinner at Grandma's 1986 
Grandma Muir, c. 198? 
Waiting for the Parade in Penticton 
Boating with the Merediths at Powell River, c. 1971 
Edna Muir and daughters Margaret and Audrey, Hawaii, 1978 
Edna and Jack Muir at home, 1966 
The Zaharoff family, 1965 
Bill, Lori and Colleen Zaharoff, 1966 
Jacquie's bridal party, July, 1969 
Bill Lewis, Liz, Cathy & Colleen 
Sir John A. MacDonald (a.k.a Grandpa) 1967 
Chris, Barb, Nick and Grandma Lewis 
Bill, his Aunt Gladys, Marg 
Grandpa and Scott 
Christmas, 1959 
Christmas, c. 1967 
Dad and Deb, c. 1977 
Grandma, Kim & Heather
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