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Caption on photo says "The Hunter Family 15/11/15." According to Gordon Eby's diary, "Hunter" was a fellow patient at the Victoria Hospital in London. On back of second copy of photograph (not kept) one of the nurses is identified as Glen Denning.
Caption in album by Anne Eby Millar: "Gordon discovered and developed a seedling apple during the years that he was raising a family."
Caption in album by Anne Eby Millar: "Gordon discovered and developed a seedling apple during the years that he was raising a family."
Elsie and Gordon Eby and children
Caption in album by Anne Eby Millar: "He loved his garden and orchard but most of all he loved his family." Gordon and Elsie Eby with their children.
Gordon C. Eby wartime photograph album
Photographs in the album are predominantly from Gordon Eby's time in the military, 1914-1919. Some photographs of family before and after the war are also included. Captions were probably composed and added by Anne Eby Millar, Gordon's daughter. The photographs and captions together narrate chronologically Gordon Eby's family of origin, his experience in the First World War with the 118th and 21st battalions as a signaler, the months spent in Germany at the end of the war as a translator, his marriage in 1921, and his growing family.
Eby, Gordon Christian, 1890-1965
Soldiers posing on a Sherman tank
Soldiers posing on a Sherman Tank during the Second World War.
Gordon Eby family with eldest son in uniform
Written on back of photograph: "Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Eby, 409 Mill St. Family group taken Sept 20/42. Annie (20), Ruth (19), Gordon (flyer, 18), Ward (16), Foster (11), Loella (6), Gary (2)." Caption in album by Anne Eby Millar: "In April, 1943 his oldest son Gordon was sent overseas with the Canadian Air Force in the Second World War."
Caption on back: "This picture was taken about the time we were married 15 years, the baby Loella is six months on this picture. I will send you one of her alone soon. Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt, and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Eby and family: Annie [Anne], Ruth, Don, Ward, Foster, Loetta."
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."
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.
A soldier poses with a mule and wagon.
German soldiers in an informal photograph. Possibly German soldiers encountered after the war, or German prisoners of war Gordon observed labouring in 1918.
21st Battalion taking a break during training in France
Postcard of members of the 21st battalion taking a break during training in France.
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Belgian family in Ham-sur-Sambre
Four photographs of a Belgian family Gordon Eby billeted with in Ham-sur-Sambre in January 1919. The three-year-old boy is identified as Joseph, who lives with his mother Amelia and grandmother.
Belgian girls in Ham-sur-Sambre
Two Belgian girls, probably in Ham-sur-Sambre where Gordon Eby was billeted in January 1919.