Pte. Alfred McMillan died in northern France in 1917 but he left behind a permanent reminder in the cavern where he and other troops took shelter during WW1.
“Pte. A. McMillan. 15th Canadian Battalion . . . 12.3.17,” says the inscription that even includes McMillan’s service number: “27931.”
The carving is one of dozens left behind by Canadian troops in the dark cavern — or souterraine, as the French call it — a former underground barracks once bustling with soldiers, now lined with their words and chisellings, a rich repository of wartime memory that remains hidden, unheralded and largely unprotected by any official authority.
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