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.
February 23, 1918 Royal Artillery Mess, Athlone, Ireland
Bill writes to his mother from the Royal Field Artillery Depot in Athlone, Ireland where he arrived around the middle of February. He is trying to decide where to apply to the War Office for his next commision: Egypt, India or France.
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