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[Editor’s note: The autograph book has been divided into five parts. Below is Part 2: pages 10-19.]

Page 10:
[top of page:]
Dedicated to L.Cpl. Leng who like the Cat had nine lives    
            From an old Sweat
            [initials]
            Cpt [?]
            2nd Midd[?]
            [Bat?]

[below top section; drawing of ten “RIP” graveyard crosses]
WAKE UP
YOUR KING AND COUNTRY
NEED YOU  
            L/Cpl Leng
            10th Essex Regt.

Page 11:
May your Joys be as deep as the ocean
And your troubles as light as the foam
            Corp JE. Rodgers
            no 838391
            4th C.M.R. Bn.
            Canadians

Page 12:
[top half:]
Pte Whelan is my name
Single is my station
Happy will be the maid
Who make’s the alteration.
            19063 Whelan J
            Coldstream Guards
            Victoria Bks Windsor

[bottom half:]
May all your troubles
be small ones, is the sincere wish of
            Pte. S Hopkins
            6th Oxford & Bucks Lt. Infty.

Page 13:
The evil men do lives after them
But the good is often interred with their bones
            Cpl. DJ Jolly
            1st Scots Guards
           

Page 14:
[top half:]
Don’t steal this book fore fear your life fore the owner carries a butcher knife
Sister Ross
            C.J.K.
            C.J. Kinross. V.C.

[bottom half:]
When I am dead and in
My grave no more wisky
Shall I crave but up on
My Head Stone will be
Written manys the [gallon]
Went down my throrgh
tip her up and down she goes
            Cpl. C. Wright.

Page 15:
Just a few lines
[nine lines drawn across page]
           
#793358 Pte. J. Street
            87 Bn Canadians

Page 16:
[drawing of a pigeon-like bird, no inscription]

Page 17:
[top half:]
Think of me now think of me ever think of the boy that’s wounded for
ever
            506034. Pte. Kowalski.
            102. Canadian.
            Regt.

[bottom half:]
The happiest moment of my life.
Was spent in the arms of another man’s wife.
(My Mother.)
            #34467
            Pte. H. Gittleson
            No. 1 Field Ambulance
            Ont. Mil. Hospital
            Ward 36.
            Montreal
            Canada
            P.G.

Page 18:
The gladdest day that ever dawned,
This mornings sunrise brought,
Past days are only shadows now,
The future but a thought.
            Pte JE. Watts
            1/5 Royal Warwicks
            Jan 19th 1918
            Orpington, Kent.

Page 19:
When night has drawn
Its curtains down
And pins them with
a star
Remember you have got
a friend
Though he may travel
far.
            pte D.H. McCann.
            No 636369.
            3rd Canadian Machine Gun Company
            B.E.F.
            France
            Jan 28 1918

 

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