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A family tradition

Métis soldier Ben Ballendine returned to Battleford after the Second World War without seeing his baby son. He never knew that both his son and his grandson followed the family tradition and joined the British Army.

Métis soldier Ben Ballendine returned to Battleford after the Second World War without seeing his baby son. He never knew that both his son and his grandson followed the family tradition and joined the British Army. Read their story on today's Wartime Wednesdays.www.elinorflorence.com/blog/army-aboriginal-family