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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."
Elsie and Gordon Eby with children
Elsie and Gordon Eby with four of their children. The children are probably the four oldest: Anne, Ruth, Gordon, Harold.
Farm buildings on an English estate
Written on back: "Farm buildings on an English estate, June 1917." Caption in album 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."
Caption on back: "one of the camp hand fire engines, Bramshott, England, May 1917."
Fireplace in home of Thomas Wray
Caption on back reads: "Typical English fireplace at the home of Thomas Wray. Is made of black polished iron, brass and tyling [tiling]. Looks very neat, comfortable, and has a home like charm with its open fireplace, which must be seen to be appreciated. Used for cooking, baking and heating." Thomas Wray is George Wray's uncle.
Written on back: "Florence Eby & John Friend daughters of King St. E. about 1919." They are standing in Christian and Catharine Eby's greenhouse.
Foresting duties at Camp Borden
118th Battalion men performing foresting duties with a team of horses at Camp Borden
Written on back: "Artistic arrangement of trees and shrubs on an English estate near Bramshott, June 1917." 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."
Gathering of relatives and friends of Gordon Eby
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."
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German soldiers in an informal photograph. Possibly German soldiers encountered after the war, or German prisoners of war Gordon observed labouring in 1918.
Gordon and Elsie Eby with children
Gordon and Elsie Eby at their home with three of their children. The children are probably the three oldest, Anne, Ruth and Gordon.
Gordon C. Eby as a young child
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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
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."
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Gordon Eby after returning home
Caption in album by Anne Eby Millar: "Back at home again in his gardens and orchard."