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Description: | 28 ms letters (64pp) written to his sister, covering his training with the 11th (Reserve) Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force at Seaford, England and his active service with the 8th Battalion CEF stationed in France, 10 July 1918 – January 9 1919, recording briefly his life on the Western Front until he was injured on the battlefield (1 October 1918) and taken to No 22 General Hospital at Camiers and then No 12 General Hospital near Rouen before returning to England to recover from the serious gun shot wounds he suffered to his head at the Canadian Convalescent Hospital in Wokingham (14 October 1918), predominately concerning thereafter his personal affairs, his medical treatment, the state of his health and mindset after losing the sight in his right eye, also recounting his life in Canada and his continuing health problems after the First World War, 12 October 1920 – 11 May 1924; with an ms telegram (1p) announcing his wounding dated 3 October 1918.
Cataloguer CLS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hewlett, D A W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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