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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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
December 4, 1916 On Leave 16 Cathcart Street, Greenock, Scotland
Bill writes a short note to his father and the family from Greenock where he and his brother Harold are staying with the Munro family.
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