Ring with Flaming Grenade Symbol
Collection of Joan Scott, Port Rowan, Ontario
Aluminum, brass, 2.2 x 2.0 x 0.7 cm, c. 1917
Edwin Peall was injured by shell shrapnel at Vimy in April 1917. During his recovery in England, he made these two rings and fell in love with his nurse, Fanny Hooper. He was repatriated in October 1917, to stay at a hospital for convalescent soldiers in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Edwin and Fanny married after the war and lived on a farm in Glenside, northwest of Moose Jaw. Regrettably, Fanny died in the 1920s.