A routine cleanup uncovered family memorabilia from the First World War

A World War I journal, a keepsake from Egypt, a military spoon, military medals. Tyler Stride's unique discovery started as a cleanup. His father passed away a few years ago, and his mother is downsizing. Stride was cleaning up the old family home when he came across all of this. He talks about being on no man's land. He talks about bullets whistling by, many heroes. Items belonging to his great-uncles, both of whom served in World War I. My two great-uncles were Ambrose William Stride and the other one was Branson Stride. They were half-brothers. They had the same father, two different mothers. Stride says the two men are the only known veterans in his family. He says the topic was never really brought up at family meetings. And some items are raising his curiosity. We have no idea why he was in Egypt. We know he died in France. But we have a piece of... Material that says Souvenir of Egypt. His father carefully labeled everything with details about what each item is. But Stride still has questions. I'm too young to know anything about them. We've heard stories. My great aunt who lived to be 102, she was probably the closest to them. The two brothers never got the chance to come back to Newfoundland. One of them is buried in France, and the other in the UK. Stride says his parents visited the grave in the UK in 1994, and his aunt and uncle visited the grave in France. My two great uncles died in World War I, and one died a month before the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel in France, and the other gentleman died All right. He died in 1920, and he died in a convalescent hospital in England, in Brighton. As for the memorabilia, he says the medals will remain with him for now, and the others may be sent off to the rooms. If you keep saying these people's names, then you keep remembering who they were, as opposed to just being forgotten. Even though I'd never met them, and my father never met them, but it's nice that we still say their names, we still know who they are. Thank And it's something that we will, as a family, we'll remember for a while. Stride told his two sons about the discovery, you hoping the family story can live on for generations. Sanuta Ranawake, CBC News, Gander. very much.