Elizabeth Patrick was hoping this Remembrance Day would bring closure after a nearly decade-long search for her estranged father's grave led her to a cemetery outside of Winnipeg.

Instead, she’s trying to work with Service Corporation International, a multibillion-dollar U.S. funeral homes and services company, to find an amicable agreement after her father’s grave was found to be empty during disinterment at Green Acres Cemetery earlier this year.

Sgt. Gordon Patrick was a glider pilot for the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

He spent his final years in Winnipeg and died in 1973. He was buried without a headstone, since he had no family in Canada.

"No veteran should be left in a grave with no headstone and no marker, no memorial, no nothing," his daughter

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