Mystery man caught on camera leaving flag and saluting outside Kitchener home on Remembrance Day

Every Remembrance Day for the last eight years, someone has been placing a Canadian flag on the front lawn of Bailey Binns-Franchetto’s Kitchener home.

Binns-Franchetto and her husband live in the St. Mary’s area of Kitchener — an area designated as a heritage district for the number of post-Second World War homes built there.

“We were thinking at the time it was maybe the city or someone from the street who just sort of goes around and puts the little Canadian flags on the garden lawn,” said Binns-Franchetto.

But last year was the first time she noticed that hers was the only home that received a flag every Nov. 11.

And it wasn’t until this past Remembrance Day that their security camera caught the moment the flag was planted.

In the video, a man who uses a cane and appears to be wearing an army uniform, stands at the bottom of the driveway placing the flag on the front lawn. He then stands up and salutes the house. Shortly after he starts walking away.

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“It was just such a heart-warming moment,” said Binns-Franchetto.

“It looks like a veteran who kind of came to give a moment of solitude or respect to probably someone who had lived here before … And it was such a beautiful moment to capture that he's been silently coming for all these years and doing that."

She said she has no idea who the man is and only knows the name of the most recent owner of the home.

While Binns-Franchetto respects it is a private moment for the man, she said she would love to meet him.

“It would be nice to know who he is and why he comes,” she said.

“I'd love, if he ever is feeling inclined to share the story, that I hope someone who knows him or he sees [the video] and maybe he comes forward someday and wants to say 'Hi.'”