Item ID#
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A2025.017.003
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Title
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Letters from overseas : Bruce County and the First World War
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Object Name
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Book
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Dates of Creation
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2025
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Creator
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Kelly, Jim
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Description
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This item titled "Letters from Overseas : Bruce County and the First World War" is a compilation of letters that describe events and experiences of the First World War. Not all of the individuals who wrote the letters came from Bruce County - however, all of the letters were published in local (Bruce County) newspapers.
This hardcopy version is a second edition of the original publication (2019), updated and revised in 2025. The updates in this version include approximately 15 letters and an index.
In the words of the author who compiled this book, "It is the story of Canadian soldiers of the Great War, told in their own words".
A glossary of terms is included in the appendix.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1: Going Over
Chapter 2: England
Chapter 3: To the War Zone
Chapter 4: 1915
Chapter 5: At the Front
Chapter 6: Poetry
Chapter 7: 1916
Chapter 8: The Medical Corps
Chapter 9: The Home Front
Chapter 10: Trench Life
Chapter 11: 1917
Chapter 12: Behind the Lines
Chapter 13: On Leave
Chapter 14: Miscellaneous
Chapter 15: 1918
Chapter 16: Other Fronts
Chapter 17: Regret to Inform You
The accompanying index (pages 412-425) contains the following headings: page number, surname, given name(s) and service number or rank.
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Level of Description
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Item
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Physical Description
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440 pages
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Restrictions on Use
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Reproduction for commercial purposes or purposes other than personal research and private study (including online display) requires permission of Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre (Archives) or the author, Jim Kelly.
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Places
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Bruce County
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People
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Allan, Chester Weatherhead
Allan, John Alexander
Allen, Norman McDonald
Anderson, D.A.
Anderson, Duncan
Anderson, Henry Brilby
Anstead, Ida
Anstead, William
Askin, Michael Dornen
Atkey, Richmond Henry
Babcock, Andrew
Babcock, Thomas
Baird, Galt
Barnes, Lizzie
Barry, William James
Baynes-Reed, William Leonard
Beaton, John
Bell, Bertram Reginald
Bell, Clifford William
Bell, James Stark
Bell, Norval Delbert
Bell, Victor Milne
Bell, Wilton Adam
Best, Joseph
Biebighauser, Benjamin Bernhardt
Black, Melville (Mike) Gourley
Blackburn, Melvin Ray
Blue, Alexander Edward
Blue, Fred
Bonnefond, Jane
Boulden, Charles Howard
Boyd, A.W.
Boyle, Ethel
Boyle, Frank Stewart
Boyle, William Henry
Bradshaw, William John
Brice, William Galpin
Brocklebank, Stanley Howson
Brown, Bernard
Brown, F.S.
Brown, James Fitzpatrick
Brown, Rolly
Bruegman, Truman
Bryce, John Charles
Cairns, William
Caldwell, Howard Alexander
Cameron, Ewart Dryden "Tex"
Cameron, John Alexander
Carleton, Earl Neil
Cartwright, Herbert
Cassidy, Neil Hutchison
Christian, Arthur Minion
Christie, Oliver
Clancy, John Joseph
Clark, R.C.
Clark, William
Clarke, Herbert J.
Condy, Albert
Connor, Henry Stanley
Cook, Luman
Cottrill, Valentine
Cousins, Almer
Crighton, Frank Alfred
Cryderman, Wilbur James
Culham, Andrew Newton
Cumming, Charles R.
Cunningham, Chester
Cunningham, Ernest Hall
Cunningham, George
D'Esyrem, Captain
Daniels, Gordon Jackson Kerr
Daniels, Stewart
Darling, Douglas D.
Darling, Gordon
Davis, James "Jim"
Dawson, Herbert John
Deakins, Alexander Stanley
Dean, Arthur Richard
Dell, Eldon Cromley
Dent, Mrs. Thomas
Devine, William John (Jack)
Diehl, Wallace McGarva
Dippel, Louis William
Dobson, John
Dobson, Robert William
Dobson, William Matthew
Donahue, Arthur Edward
Dryden, Mary Hay
Duncan, D.H.
Durant, Fred
Eaves, Thomas
Eidt, Edward Gerald
Elliott, John Erwin
Emmerton, Richard
Erdman, Edward C.
Ewald, Amos
Ewald, William
Falla, Albert Edward
Farrell, Joseph Andrew
Featherston, Harry John
Fenton, William Henry, b. 1893
Arkell, Annie Mae (Ferguson)
Ferguson, Richard Arthur
Fields, Spot
Fischer, Edgar John
Fisher, A.F.
Fleming, Samuel
Fletcher, Mary Elizabeth
Fraser, James Johnston, Dr.
Freeman, Wilfrid Joseph
Fullerton, Robert
Geddes, Frank Kidner
Geddes, John Rowand
Geddes, Ralph Charles
George, Thomas Henry
Golden, Thomas Francis (Bert)
Goodall, Sydney Herbert
Griffin, G.J.
Gunnis, Victor Nelson
Haase, Gabriel
Hackett, Percival
Halpenny, Karl
Hamilton, John A.
Hamilton, John Lewis
Hanley, William Patrick
Harmon, William Milton
Hartt, Anthony D.
Haug, James Wesley
Helwig, Norman William
Hepburn, Finwill
Hepburn, George David
Hilditch, John George
Hilditch, William Robert
Hill, Thomas Alexander
Hinsperger, Albert William
Hodgkinson, Stanley
Holmes, Kathleen
Honey, Samuel Lewis
Hoover, Bertram Harold
Hopkins, M.
Howe, John Amer
Huck, Norman
Huck, William Edward
Hughes, George Alexander
Hunter, Rusty
Hyatt, John Ernest (Jack)
Hyde, Kirk Nelson
Hyslop, Raoul Laureston (Ray)
Jack, Henry (Harry)
Jack, William
Jackson, Frederick Walker
Jackson, John Stenson
Jarvis, Herbert Joseph
Jeffrey, John David
Jewell, Frederick Earl
Johns, Tom
Johnston, Eric Franklin
Johnston, Harold Tumoth
Johnston, S.R.
Johnston, Thomas
Johnston, William James
Johnstone, James Joseph
Kalbfleisch, George
Keelan, Raymond A.
Keeshig, Bernard Reuben (Barney)
Kemball, Arnold Henry Grant
Kemp, Franklin Wallace
Kenny, Frederick
Kenny, Gertrude
Kidd, John Tyrwhitt H.
Kingsbury, Wilfrid George
Kleinschroth, William
Knowles, William John (Biscuit)
Kolb, William Hugh
Krug, Walter Albright
Lamers, Abraham
Lawson, Alexander Smirle
Leask, Gordon Wallace
Leask, Melville
Leech, James
Lettner, Mrs. George
Lewis, Albert Walter
Lewis, Cassie
Lindsay, William Sampson
Lowe, James Watt
MacDonald, George Alfred
MacGregor, Harold Gladstone
Mack, Danny
MacKinnon, Elizabeth
MacKinnon, Finnie George
MacLean, Dugald Black
MacLean, Neil Bruce
MacLeod, John Archibald ("Jack")
MacNeill, John, Rev.
Maloney, Christopher
Marr, Percy Leroy
Marsden, Audrey
Marshall, Harold
Martin, Frederick Lionel
Martin, Robert Stanley
Masters, Charles Keith, Rev.
Maxwell, Alice
McAfee, Edgar Joseph
McArthur, Harvey Jacob
McCallum, Dugald David
McCallum, James
McCannell, Alexander Neil
McCarter, Andrew Reginald
McCarter, Gordon Milton
McCrimmon, Kenneth Howard
McDonald, Murdoch Norman
McDougall, John Alexander
McElrea, Herbert Samuel
McGarity, Daniel Patrick
McGarrity, John Edward (Jack)
McGill, Wilfrid Laurier
McGillivray, Charles Adam (Charlie)
McGillivray, Esther
McGillivray, Janet (Jessie)
McGillivray, Neil (b. 1880)
McGirr, Lancelot
McGowan, Will
McInnes, John, Mrs.
McIntosh, Angus (Amabel)
McIntyre, Angus
McIntyre, Donald, Private
McIntyre, James Bell
McIntyre, John, Private
McKay, Alexander Allen (Sandy)
McKay, Walter Scott
McKay, Wilfred Laurier
McKay, Wilfred Laurier
McKay, Wilfrid Donald
McKechnie, Malcolm Archibald
McKechnie, Victor Alexander
McKenzie, Donald Elroy
McKenzie, Stewart Scott
McKeogh, William
McKinnon, Allan Alexander
McKinnon, John Alexander
McKinnon, Robert A.
McLachlan, Mrs. John
McLay, Charles
McLean, George Albert
McLean, John Hugh
McLean, Percy Stewart
McLean, Peter Kenneth
McLeod, Mrs.
McMullen, William Henry
McMurray, John Wilfred Cecil
McNally, Arthur Watson
McNaught, David M.
McNeill, Archibald M.
McPhail, Daniel
McQuarrie, Donald Fraser
McRae, John, 1872-1918
McVannel, Earl
Miller, Cecil Orr
Miller, Samuel Wesley
Mills, Richard (b. 1896)
Mitchell, James
Moore, Thomas Roy
Munro, John Ewart
Musgrove, George Henry
Nadjiwon, Peter Christopher
Neilson, John Alexander
Nelson, Percy
Newman, Bill
Nutting, Charles Francis
Oberle, Kathleen
Oberle, Roy Alexander
Ohe, Charles S.
Ottewell, Richard Philip
Parker, Duke
Parker, Horace
Parr, Arthur Howard
Parr, Roy Sylvester
Parrott, Albert Edward
Parsons, Myles Jukes
Patterson, Jessie
Pattinson, Arthur Reginald Dean
Pauline, J.M.
Pearce, Emerson Albert
Perrin, Jim
Perry, Daniel
Pettigrew, Ernest "Ernie"
Pitt, Walter Martin
Pollock, Mary
Pollock, Robert
Pope, Clarence Sherwood
Pope, Ernscliffe Errol
Portier, Victor
Price, William Herbert
Priest, H.H.
Prosser, Carleton Decker
Purdy, George Smith
Purdy, Guy Clarke
Putnam, Lawrence Rowe
Raeburn, Annie
Reed, George Norman
Reichenbach, Ethelred
Reid, Ernest
Reid, John Alymer
Reinhart, Irvin Emery
Rennie, Joseph Hamilton
Renshaw, Pearl Ackerman
Rigsby, Edward M.
Robertson, Charles Eric
Robertson, Harold Denmark
Robertson, N. Roy
Robinson, Arthur
Robinson, Fritz
Rolston, Karl Edward
Ross, James Munroe
Ross, John Campbell
Rowan, Harold Robert
Rowland, Robert Clark
Rundle, Francis William Humphrey
Runstadtler, Hermie
Rushton, James Edgar
Rusk, Elmer
Russell Family
Russell, Adam Leith
Russell, Harry
Russell, James Wallace
Russell, John Finlay
Rutherford, Cecil Alphonso
Rutherford, Roswell
Ryder, Lady Frances
Scales, Ewart Gordon
Scanlan, William Maunsell
Scarlett, Robert Arthur, Rev.
Schefter, Frank
Schnurr, Arthur
Scott, Bob
Scott, Cecil Edgar
Scott, James Henry
Seabrook, Charles Frederick
Seaman, R.G.
Seaman, Robert Lloyd
Shannon, Alvyn
Shannon, Percy Roy
Shaw, Billy
Shaw, Leslie Dawson
Shewfelt, Gordon Archibald (b. 1894)
Shoemaker, Mrs.
Sieling, David Samuel
Small, Simon George
Smeaton, William Charles Victor
Sparrow, James Michael
Stanley, Lorne Lawrence
Stanley, Walter
Stark, John Hopper
Starling, Henry Walk
Stephenson, Elwood Robert "Bobby"
Stevens, Mrs. P.
Stewart, Alexander Esplen
Stewart, Donald Wilfred
Stobie, Charles Henry
Stone, Thomas Wilmot
Sumpton, Joseph Christopher
Sutton, Charley Keyworth
Swanston, Walter Fielding
Swinburne, John Eliot
Switzer, George Edward
Taggart, Arthur Richard
Taylor, George High
Taylor, Herbert M.
Taylor, Hugh Daniel
Thomson, Roy Reid
Thorne, William Franklin
Tolton, Charles Alfred
Tooke, Samuel Harold Leslie
Truax, Everett Ashbury
Turner, Alex
Turner, Robert Melville
Tyre, Pte.
VanHatten, Charles Edward
VanHatten, Henry
VanHatten, Herbert Anthony
Wade, Harold
Warden, John Weightman
Watt, James
Wells, Clifford Almon
Welsh, William (b. 1891)
Wesley, William Charles
West, George Matthew
Wettlaufer, Harry
White, George
White, Robert Milton
White, William James
Whitehead, Roy Beverley, Captain
Wildfang, Earle
Wilhelm, Theodore C.
Willoughby, William Thomas
Wilson, Hugh C.
Wilson, Jack
Wilson, Jasper Maxwell Cruise
Wilson, Thomas Melville
Wilton, Alvin Edward
Wolfe, William
Woods, Herbert West
Woods, Thomas Alexander
Yack, Wilfred Laurier
Young, Harold Clare
Young, Joseph Wilbert
Young, Samuel Leslie "Les"
Young, William (b. 1891)
Zettel, Urban Joseph
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Search Terms & Subjects
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160th Bruce Battalion
First World War
Soldiers
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