Mrs. Constance Wylie from Vancouver, British Columbia, was named the National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother in 1983. During the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on November 11, 1983, she laid a wreath at the base of the National War Memorial on behalf of all mothers who have lost a child in military service to Canada.

On March 7, 1951, her only son, Private Lloyd Wylie, was killed as a result of a machine gun blast while serving with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, marking the seventh Canadian casualty in the Korean War.

Soon after Lloyd arrived in Korea, his mother wrote him a letter to advise that she was knitting him a pair of wool socks. In return correspondence, Private Wylie informed that he would trade his old socks to an Australian friend for a can of beer. Just a few hours after writing the letter to his mother, he was killed. Mrs. Wylie heard the news three days after his death.

In April 1984, Mrs. Wylie traveled to Korea to visit her son’s grave.