Without explanation, the War Office sends Bill’s father a letter saying only that he is sick. The letter goes home to Teeswater and is then forwarded to Neepawa, Manitoba where John is visiting his daughter Floss Skilling Guinn. He receives it on September 7th, nearly a month after Bill has fallen sick.
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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