Calgary-made app helps share stories of Canadian soldiers

There will soon be a unique new way to remember the soldiers who served our country in war.

Calgarians Ryan Mullens and Matthew Cudmore have designed an app that tours you through graveyards around the world and shares the history of each soldier.

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When it’s fully up and running, you’ll be able to use your phone to go to a soldier’s headstone and look up the person’s history.

“If an operator, like the City of Calgary, chooses to have a site, maybe you’ll visit airmen that were lost. There’s a lot of airmen in Calgary that were killed during training. It could tour you from grave to grave and navigate you through the actual site,” said Mullens.

The app works in several cemeteries in Canada and in Europe.

Mullens says they got the idea about four years ago.

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“With the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge I had done a project that took some wood that was directly connected to it. So there was an officer named Leslie Miller and he picked up some acorns off the battlefield in France and sent them back to Canada. And so, for the last hundred years, those acorns have been growing into these massive oak trees in Scarborough, Ontario,” said Mullens.

Their app, called Memory Anchor, is due to be completed in the spring.