Canada Collar Badge, 1914-1918. Over the Top Collection, Personal Collection of André de Bruin (OTT2946).

"We're in a new world now," Jem says, "and we've got to make it a better one than the old. This isn't done yet, though some folks think it ought to be. The job isn't finished—it isn't really begun. The old world is destroyed and we must build up the new one. It will be the task of the years. I've seen enough of war to realize that we've got to make a world where war can't happen. We've given Prussianism its mortal wound—but it isn't dead yet and it isn't confined to Germany either. It isn't enough to drive out the old spirit—we've got to bring in the new."

— Jem speaking to Rilla upon returning home from the War. L. M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside. NY: Stoke, 1921, p. 368.