Did you know that on the back of the Canadian $10 bill, you can find three remembrance-related illustrations? On the left is a verse from In Flanders Fields, the famous First World War poem by Canadian John McCrae. The center depicts a Canadian Forces peacekeeper, doves and a globe representing Canadian peace support efforts around the world.
On the right is a Veteran standing at attention near the Ottawa War Memorial at a Remembrance Day service. His name is Robert Metcalfe, a British Soldier who passed away at the age of 90 in 2007.

Although he was not a Canadian until just after WWII, there is a very visual and uniquely Canadian connection. The fact that he managed to live to the age of 90 is rather remarkable, given what happened in the Second World War. Born in England, he was one of the 400,000 members of the British Expeditionary Force sent to the mainland where they found themselves facing the new German warfare technique - the Blitzkrieg.
He was treating a wounded comrade when he was hit in the legs by shrapnel.
En-route to hospital, his ambulance came under fire from a German tank, which then miraculously ceased fire. Evacuated from Dunkirk on HMS Grenade, two of the sister ships with them were sunk.
Recovered, he was sent to allied campaigns in North Africa and Italy. En-route, his ship was chased by the German battleship Bismarck.
Sent into the Italian campaign, he met his future wife, a lieutenant and physiotherapist in a Canadian hospital. They were married in the morning by the Mayor of the Italian town and again in the afternoon by a British Padre. After the war they settled in Chatham, New Brunswick.
One day out of the blue, he received a call from a government official asking him to go downtown for a photo-op. He was not told what the photo was for or why they chose him. "He had no idea he would be on the $10 bill", his daughter said.
And now you know the story of the old veteran on the $10 bill.