London, Ont., woman’s uncle among Indigenous WW II soldiers being honoured in Dutch museum exhibit – CBC

Apr 15, 2025

Dutch researcher connected with family of soldiers who helped liberate the Netherlands

Eighty years after her uncle Welby Patterson died on a European battlefield in the final days of the Second World War, Maidy Keir will see him being recognized at a museum exhibit in the Netherlands in a way he never really was back home.

“I think it will be very emotional. I’ve always been very proud of him,” Keir said in her London, Ont., home, surrounded by some of the artifacts she still has from her uncle’s time serving with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.

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