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Description: | 83 ms letters (386pp) and one postcard, together with a ts transcription (107pp), written home during his service as a Private with the 75th Canadian Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) on the Western Front, November 1916 – February 1919, describing the lesser standards allowed in uniform once in France as long as one's rifle was kept clean, attending NCO courses and lectures, receiving mail and parcels including supplies of socks and food, serving alongside his brothers, one of whom suffered wounds, cooking facilities, football, his living conditions and billets, his minor wounding in the leg and a period spent in hospital and a convalescent camp, visits to the YMCA, how he missed his sister's wedding and the long wait to receive a picture and some cake, his relief at learning that a friend is a prisoner of war, criticisms of those back home who are avoiding conscription, books he has read, visits while on leave to see his wounded brother in Epsom, duties involving traffic control for trains and road traffic, the prevalence of soldiers' Bibles, suffering from appendicitis and his hopes for going home and the future.
Cataloguer APR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 75th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force Canadian Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wright, W Leslie | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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