[Editor’s note: The autograph book has been divided into five parts. Below is Part 5: pages 40-47.]
Page 40:
Good Heaven!
Oh, harken to this song of mine!
‘Tis true, you may rely!
St. Peter has hung out a sign:
“No Germans need apply!”
H.L. Cleveland
507373
Div. Sig. Co. C.E.
Cookshire, Que.,
Canada.
4-11-18
Ward 36,
O.M.H.,
Orpington, Kent.
Page 41:
[painting of swans on a river]
“Down where that Swannee River flows”
Pte S.W. Kenderdine.
TORONTO.
Page 42:
[paper collage of maple leaves around a picture of waving soldiers, no inscription]
Page 43:
To thine own self be true;
And it must follow as the night the day
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Sgt. E.A. Edson
244 Battalion
Montreal
May 24/18
Ontario Military Hospital
Orpington, Kent
Page 44:
Aye, war they say is hell; it’s heaven too
It let’s a man discover what he’s worth
It takes his measure, shows what he can do,
Gives him a joy like nothing else on earth,
It fans in him a flame that otherwise
Would flicker out, these drab and sordid days;
It teaches him in pain and sacrifice
Faith, fortitude, grim courage past all praise.
Willmot E.L. Sparks
Capt. C.A.M.C.
Toronto, Canada.
Jan. 23rd 1918.
#16 Canadian General Hospital
Orpington, Kent.
Page 45:
[drawing of cottage]
T.H.H.F. 30-1-18.
“And i shall see the cottage on the hill
With all the loveliness of a summers day,
Whose memory to me is haunted still
By loves sweet voice, the witchery of her ways.
And i shall climb the path and ope the gate
When peace has come, if peace comes not too late.”
Thos. H.H. Fortier
Ward 35-
Ont Military Hosp.
Page 46:
[drawing of tank amongst barbed wire and shell holes]
ORPINGTONS TANK IN ACTION
WARD 26
[?] J. Nebb
12th Rifle Bge.
6/1/1918
Page 47:
Here’s to those I love,
Here’s to those who love me,
Here’s to those who those I love,
And here’s to those who love those who love me.
R.O. Callister
10th Queens. R.W. Surrey’s
Douglas
Isle of Man
Jan. 1918
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