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"Lady Lost Five Sons"

'Canada's War Mother' and the Great War

This Web site tells the story of the family of Charlotte Susan Wood, originally of Chatham, Kent, later of Edmonton, Alberta. All twelve of Charlotte's sons served in the British Army or Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Boer War and World War One, and six lost their lives. Between the World Wars, Charlotte became well-known as "Canada's War Mother" -- active in commemorating those who had died, and an advocate for the rights of those who had survived. Today her family's story is hardly known: it is presented here with an accompanying historical narrative, describing the momentous events which shook the world that the Woods lived in, and died in.