- CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-069
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- 1916
Two women visiting the 118th Battalion camp.
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Two women visiting the 118th Battalion camp.
Caption in album by Anne Eby Millar: "A welcome awaited Gordon at home."
Wedding of Gordon Eby and Elsie Hewitt
Caption in album by Anne Eby Millar: "Gordon married Elsie Hewitt on June 21, 1921. They raised eight children." The couple's attendants are possibly Wesley Stengel and Annie Hewitt.
Ward 3 patients in Victoria Hospital, London
Ward 3 patients in Victoria Hospital, London
Ward 3 patients and nurses at Victoria Hospital
Patients and nurses at Victoria Hospital.Identification on back of photograph, left to right: unknown, Miss Glen Denning, Mr. Hunter (probably), Miss Ashely (?), Gordon Eby. Caption by Anne Eby Millar: "In order to be accepted for overseas duty Gordon had to have surgery for hernia at Victoria Hospital, London. He made many friends and took pictures of the nurses and fellow patients."
Victoria Hospital ward, London
A nurse or volunteer with two patients in a ward at Victoria Hospital, London. Possibly Ward 3, where Gordon Eby was housed while having hernia surgery.
Known as "Franny" she is a cousin to Gordon Eby. Caption in album by Anne Eby Millar: "Cousin Frany was a big, handsome woman. Ada teased him about his 'big girl' who was seen with him by his fellow soldiers."
Two women visitors with a soldier, possibly Gordon Eby.
Two 118th Battalion signallers stand outside a tent
The year "1916" is written on reverse, but may by 1917, in England.
Troops waiting at a train station
Written on back: "Troup for a train, England." The battalion mascot, a goat, waits with the men on the platform.
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: "A trellis of rambler roses in bud at the time near Witley about 8 miles from here. June 1917."
Three of Gordon Eby's children
Three of Gordon Eby's eight children are pictured playing in the snow. No identification is provided in the album. They are possibly his first three children (left to right): Gordon, Anne, Ruth. Caption in album by Anne Eby Millar: "As the children were born his camera was busy."
Caption on back: "Wife of Thomas Wray, his son Jack and daughter Mabel. There is another daughter and son who are older and are not at home." Thomas Wray is George Wray's uncle.