Bill writes to his mother from Sir John Ellerman Hospital telling her of his busy social life in London. He is awaiting a Board Examination to determine his fitness for further service and expects to be sent on to a Convalescent Home for further rest before returning to the front.
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.
Friday, October 12, 2012
September 24, 1917 The Sir John Ellerman Hospital, Regent’s Park, London N.W.
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