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Soldiers loading a lorry for move to Camp Borden

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-048
Item
Jul 1916

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Soldiers Gordon Eby and George Wray with Christian Eby

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-064
Item
1916

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Gordon Eby with George Wray receiving Gordon’s father, Christian, who is visiting the 118th Battalion camp in Borden

Soldiers being inoculated

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-017
Item
19 Oct 1915

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Soldiers at Camp Borden being inoculated

Soldier with mule and wagon

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-098
Item
1919

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

A soldier poses with a mule and wagon.

Snetsinger sisters and friend

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-011
Item
1915

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

The Snetsinger sisters, Murray and Willa, and friend. Gordon Eby met them while in hospital in London, Ontario, where they were volunteers. Caption by Anne Eby Millar: "Oct 31st was the date that Gordon met the Snetsinger girls. He was in Victoria Hospital, London and they came to the hospital to visit the soldiers. Murray was a schoolteacher and Willa was living at home with her mother and brother. These girls liked to dress in military style clothes and title themselves 'major.'"

Shrine on the road to Wolperath

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-107
Item
1919

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

A soldier, possibly Gordon Eby, stands beside a shrine near the village of Wolperath, Germany.

Sgt. Major Woodrow

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-041.1
Item
1915

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Sgt. Major Woodrow with another soldier

Saying farewell to the boys

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-027
Item
1915

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Caption on back by Gordon Eby: "Friends and relatives to see the boys of Kitchener leave for overseas, 1915." A family group stands on the platform of the train station at Berlin, Ontario.

Rose and Dorothy Eby and friends

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-075
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Gordon Eby's nieces Rose and Dorothy playing with friends.

Resting on a route march

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-026
Item
1916

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

A postcard. Caption on back by Gordon Eby reads: "118th Battalion. Brown with pipe, 1916. Resting on long march." Photograph was probably taken by Gordon Eby on a "route march" near London in November, 1916, as described in his diary.The walk was about 17 miles with several 10 minute rests.

Pte Wismer

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-041
Item
1915

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Written on back: "A pal, London 1915, Pte Wismer."

Pte. Capling and Pte. Ivan Bowman

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-095
Item
May 1917

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Caption on back: "Left to right: Pte. Capling, Pte Bowman Ivan. Ready for overseas a few days before they left. Bramshott, May 1917." Caption by Anne Eby Millar: "Ivan Bowman, left and friend Capling, just before going over to France. Capling was wounded. Ivan Bowman returned to Kitchener and set up a collection agency after the war."

Protest over not enough bacon

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-040
Item
1916

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Written on back of postcard: "71st Battalion, London, Ont. 1916. Pt Yongue not enough bacon."

Privates relaxing near Bramshott

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-085
Item
May 1917

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Caption by Anne Eby Millar: "From January 1917 until September, Gordon Eby and his comrades stayed in England. Eby went sightseeing, enjoyed the countryside and the flowers, taking numerous pictures." Written on back: "Left to right: Pte. Allemang, Pte. Gingerich, Pte. Eby G., Pte. Bich J., Pte. Bich A. The brook on the footpath to the town of Haselmere. May 1917. Bramshott, Hamts. Eng."

Practice trenches

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-059
Item
1916

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

118th Battalion men conducting trench training at Camp Borden

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