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Fanny and Ed Peall

In this sepia-coloured photograph, a young smiling couple are sitting close together. They have their legs crossed and are sitting on a porch and looking at the camera.

Collection of Joan Scott, Port Rowan, Ontario

Fanny & Ed Peall, on their porch in Glenside, Saskatchewan, c. 1922

Edwin Peall was wounded by shrapnel at Vimy Ridge in April 1917. During his recovery in England, he made these two rings and fell in love with his nurse, Fanny Hooper. He was returned to Canada in October 1917 to a convalescent hospital in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. After the First World War was over, he and Fanny married, and they farmed in Glenside, Saskatchewan north-west of Moose Jaw. Unfortunately, Fanny died in the 1920s.