Wilfred Entwisle Bury was born in England in 1881 and moved to the Vermillion, Alberta, area in 1909. Bury enlisted in Vermillion in January 1915 and served overseas with the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regiment) until his death on November 15, 1917. See also the Ernest Mosley Taylor, also from Vermillion, to whom he was related by marriage. The collection currently consists of six letters.