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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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
December 21, 1916 Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
Bill writes to his father from the barracks at Newcastle where he expects to be working over Christmas as orderly officer.



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