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.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
August 4, 1918 The Methodist Manse, Ballinasloe, Ireland
Bill writes to his mother in Teeswater from the Methodist Manse at Ballinasloe, where he is filling in for the minister and preaching several sermons. It is the 4th anniversary of England’s declaration of war on Germany. Bill hopes to become a Methodist minister when the war is over.
Labels:
Athlone,
Aughrim,
Ballinasloe,
Bill Skilling,
Gertrude Skilling Kavaner,
Harold Skilling,
Ireland,
Mae Skilling,
Methodist Church,
Mr. McIntyre,
Mr. Orr,
Norma Skilling,
Orville Skilling,
Verne Skilling,
WW1
Location:
Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, Ireland
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