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A Interesting War Exhibit Blood-Stained Sweater of Winnipeg Boy Received by Mother Will Afterwards Go to Her. Thousands of people in Australia and western Canada have seen the blood-stained, bullet-riddled sweater in which Signaller Andrew H. Skidmore, of Winnipeg, was wounded over a year ago at Ypres, but his mother, Mrs. Skidmore, of 127 Lansdowne avenue, saw them for the first time on Saturday when she attended the exhibition of war relics at 231 Portage avenue. Mrs. Skidmore was very...
A Interesting War Exhibit Blood-Stained Sweater of Winnipeg Boy Received by Mother Will...
Four Days Without Food and WaterStaff Signaller A. .H Skidmore of the Duke of Connaughts Own Rifles, 7th Battalion, 2nd Brigade, and now in hospital at Eastbourne, writes to his brother, Bugler Skidmore, 127 Lansdowne avenue, of the 79th Cameron Highlanders:"I got through that Ypres scrap with a couple of scratches, one on my left hip and one on my right thumb, a piece of shrapnel burst my thumb nail and stuck in my thumb."I didn't leave the trenches until three days after my battalion had...
Four Days Without Food and WaterStaff Signaller A. .H Skidmore of the Duke of Connaughts Own...
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