Owen Sound soldiers who lost their lives in war over the last 100 years are being honoured by some Owen Sound teens.
Owen Sound District Secondary School students have researched individual servicemen and women from the city and surrounding area.
Their teacher advisor, Ryan Mcmanaman, says the students learn to connect with someone from local history and gain a better understanding of the sacrifices that were made to better our future.
"I think that they take a little more ownership and it's more authentic learning when they're doing the research and they're trying to figure it out and piece together a story and sometimes it's quite a mystery to put it all together," said Mcmanaman.
Grade 12 student Wilder Noble says the soldier she researched, John Doherty, was not much older than she is now when he was killed in a shell explosion in World War One.
"He was in college when he went off to war so he was going to get a teaching degree and he didn't get the opportunity to finish that. That could have been me or one of my peers in that situation," said Noble.
The students have researched five soldiers this year bringing the total to 20 over the four year course of their project.
What they call Memory Markers have been created and erected in Owen Sound's Jervis Bay Park with brief biographies of the soldiers.
Ryan Mcmanaman and Wilder Noble. (Photo by Kirk Scott)
