Mennonite Archival Information Database

118th Battalion men in London

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-014
Item
16 Oct 1915

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

118th Battalion men in camp in London, Ontario.

Unknown

118th Battalion men, 1915

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-016
Item
1915

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

118th Battalion men posing (officer lying in front), 1915. This is an unusual photograph because the officer is reclining on the ground in front of the men.

Unknown

118th Battalion volunteers, Oct 1915

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-013
Item
20 Oct 1915

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

118th Battalion volunteers, October 20, 1915

Unknown

21st Battalion taking a break during training in France

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-104
Item
[between 1917 and 1919]

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Postcard of members of the 21st battalion taking a break during training in France.

Unknown

3rd Brigade Canadian Garrison Artillery concert party

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-103
Item
ca. 1917

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Printed on photograph: "Ed. H. Speeckaert, C. Charleroi, Brux. 3rd Brigade Canadian Garnison [sic] Artillery Concert Party."

Unknown

Carl Reesor and Simeon Reesor at military camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.287.13-2
Item
1918

Part of Simeon Reesor photograph collection

Unknown

Carl Reesor and Simeon Reesor at military camp

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.287.13-3
Item
1918

Part of Simeon Reesor photograph collection

Simeon and Carl Reesor sit at the opening of a military tent in military uniform. Behind them is a pile of folded blankets.

Unknown

Forestry service men near Petrograd

CA MAO 2015-1-91
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[between 1915 and 1917]

A group photograph of men in the "forstei" (forestry service), the alternative service program for Russian Mennonite conscientious objectors. Written on back: "N. Fransen (oberste Reihe, der 6th von Rechts) geboren den 1879 in Mariawohl, Sued-Russland. Aufname in Iswar, bei Leningrad, dienste daselbst von 1915-1917." Translation: N. Fransen (top row, 6th from right) born 1879 in Mariawohl, South Russia. Taken in Iswar near Leningrad, served there from 1915-1917.

Unknown

Gathering of relatives and friends of Gordon Eby

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-007
Item
19 Sep 1915

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Caption by Anne Eby Millar: "In September, 1915 relatives and friends gathered to wish Gordon well after he joined the overseas battalion. They presented him with a watch."

Unknown

Gordon C. Eby with nurse in Victoria Hospital,

CA MAO HM1-66 60
Item
1915

Gordon C. Eby with nurse in Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario for hernia surgery prior to overseas service in World War I. 7th leaf in wartime photo album.

Unknown

Gordon C. Eby, 1918

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-003
Item
Nov 1918

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Caption by Anne Eby Millar: "Gordon Christian Eby: taken in Aberdeen, Scotland in November, 1918, this pensive pose shows a young man who has seen the horrors of war."

Unknown

Gordon Eby at the Victoria hospital in London

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-024
Item
1915

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Gordon Eby on the ward at the Victoria Hospital in London with two nurses where he received surgery on his hernia. Probably Ward 3.

Unknown

Gordon Eby with parents and sister

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.66.4.1-008
Item
19 Sep 1915

Part of Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album

Gordon Eby with his parents at a family gathering to wish him well after he joined the overseas battalion. Left to right: Isabella Eby (sister), Catherine (Clemens) Eby, Gordon Christian Eby and Christian Eby

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