[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