Bill is in good spirits as he writes to his mother from “somewhere in France” telling her about his last days in England over New Year’s and the trip across the channel. He is now part of the 16th Divisional Artillery awaiting posting to his Brigade and Battery.
A British Officer's letters sent home to Canada by Lieutenant William Milton Skilling during WW1. Born in Teeswater, Ontario, he served in the Royal Artillery as a Forward Observation Officer in France and Belgium. After the beginning of the 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), he was invalided on August 14, 1917 to Abbeville then to England. He returned to Germany with the British Army of the Rhine in 1919.
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