SWE Highlight - Memorial Tree certificate for William Douglas Aird

City of Saskatoon certificate No. 130 "to certify that a memorial tree was planted by Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Aird (parents) in honour of Lieut. William Douglas Aird, 10th Can. Machine Gun Batt. who enlisted at Saskatoon, Sask. Sept. 22, 1915. Killed Oct. 26, 1917, age 20 years, at Passchendaele." Signed by Mayor Howard McConnell and City Clerk Mourdant Tomlinson.
The caption reads: "Let Those Who Come After See to It That this Name Be Not Forgotten."

This memorial tree certificate was issued ca. 1922. The tree was most likely located along Saskatoon's Memorial Avenue in Woodlawn Cemetary, a path lined by trees leading to a memorial for dead of World War I.

The Memorial Tree certificate for William Douglas Aird is part of the Document Collection at the Saskatoon Public Library, Local History Room. See more artifacts online at the Saskatchewan War Experience.