These are the family photos of William Milton Skilling including some that he sent home from Europe when he was on leave from the British Army of the Rhine in 1919.
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| Skilling Family Back: Maude, Floss, Orville Middle: John, Mae, Gert, Norma, Agnes Front: Harold and Will Teeswater, Ontario 1896 |
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| Skilling Men Back: Orville, Harold Front: John, Verne and Bill Teeswater, Ontario c. 1908 |
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| William Milton Skilling |
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| William Milton Skilling |
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| William Milton Skilling Victoria College Yearbook 1915 |
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| Second Lieutenant William Milton Skilling c. 1916 |
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| News Clipping from The Toronto Star 1916 Credit: McMaster University Archives |
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| William M. Skilling Left |
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| Lt. W.M.Skilling Royal Horse Artillery Belgium c.1917 |
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| Left to right: Bernard Trotter, W. Porter and Bill Skilling Officers Training at Oxford, England Taken probably at St. John's Wood, London, England 1916 Credit: McMaster University Archives |
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| Left to right: Lt. D? A. Simmons A.S.C., Lt. G.H. Hinds R.F.A., Sgt.O. Steven R.F.A., Lt. William M. Skilling R.F.A., ? Strauss R.F.A. |
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| Bill Skilling with Olga (left) and Yvonne Joyez Belgium 1917 |
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| Bill Skilling (far right) British Army of the Rhine in Germany 1919 |
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| Wagon Hauling Goods Antwerp Harbour, Belgium August 1919 |
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| Bill Skilling Going on Leave Berg. Gladbach, Germany August 1919 |
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| Anna Potter Berg. Gladbach, Germany August 1919 |
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| William Skilling West Beach at Ostend, Belgium August 1919 |
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| German Gun with Muzzle Blown Out (belonging to one of the land batteries) Blankenberghe, Belgium August 1919 |
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| Another View of Destroyed German Gun (Notice Muzzle and the circle in which gun turns to fire on different targets) Blankenberghe, Belgium August 1919 |
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| Entrance to Bruges Canal With Block Ships 'Iphegenia' left and 'Thetis' right Sunk St. Georges' Day 1918 Zebrugge, Belgium August 1919 |
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| Another Block Ship Just Outside Bruges Canal Zeebrugge, Belgium August 1919 |
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| German Naval Gun (Breech destroyed) on the Mole Zeebrugge, Belgium August 1919 |
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| German Naval Gun on The Mole Zeebrugge, Belgium August 1919 |
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| German Naval Gun on the Mole (muzzle pointing down and ranges etc. painted on shields top right) Zeebrugge, Belgium August 1919 |
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| Fountain, Grand Place, Antwerp August 1919 |
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| Hotel Weber, Antwerp, Belgium August, 1919 Formerly a German Hotel, now Y.M.C.A |
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| The Mole and Harbour (note German guns) taken from the tower Zeebrugge, Belgium August 1919 |
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| Fishing ship with red sails taken from the top of the Tower The Mole, Zeebrugge, Belgium August 1919 |
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| Front part of the Mole Showing the Tower (Note German Guns) Zeebrugge, Belgium August 1919 |
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| Bill Skilling in Civies Ostend Beach, Belgium August 1919 |
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| 'The Vindictive' sunk by the British Navy in Ostend Harbour to block the entrance August 1919 |
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| Fencing tournament, Ostend, Belgium August 1919 |
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| Fencing tournament, Ostend, Belgium August, 1919 |
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| Destroyed German Gun The Mole, Zeebrugge, Belgium August 1919 |
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| Billet with German Family Berg. Gladbach, Germany August 1919 |
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| French Gendarmes in Calais |
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| Bill Skilling with his car 'Diana of the Ephesians' Back in Canada c. 1921 |
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| William Milton Skilling Founder of Optimist Club Canada c. 1924 |
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| Bill Skilling with his niece and nephew Toronto, Ontario c. 1925 |
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