Bill writes to his mother from The Sir John Ellerman Hospital in London sounding very chipper and upbeat. After a lot of chatty news, he tells her of the cardiologist’s report on his condition and hopes to return to the front soon.
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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