This is an extract of Bill's letter to his father John Skilling detailing his finances and explaining when he will be sending money home
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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January 31, 1916 Exhibition Armouries, Toronto
Bill Skilling writes from Toronto to his father John Skilling in Teeswater, Ontario that he has passed the board and is waiting for his final inspection before he goes overseas.
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