Bethel-Zion WI Tweedsmuir Community History, Volume 5, 1964-2004, page 5

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FElAWAW l,\ \9\€‘ Gun crew training at Petawawa in Artillery. The guns were drawn by horses - note the spurs, Top row - left to right â€" Clifford Ketcheson, Arthur Hall, Bertie Lawrinson and Ed Emmerson. Front row â€" Blenheim. William Harrison, Hector Ray, Everett Smith and Roy Blakely, flg3§EfliilEEEELL;EEE§L_EQ§£lE - joined the Queen's University Unit Jan, llth, 19l6, served overseas until June, 1919. Landed at Southampton, England â€" on to Moore's Barracks near Dover - served there about 1 year and was transferred to Salonica, Greece via Gibraltar with stopovers at Crete, Morocco. Malta and Cyprus, thence through the Aegean Sea, stopping at Skyros then to Salonica where could be seen the beauties of the Elimpos with its peak covered with snow the year round â€" served here 11 months and left the night the city burned. Due to the submarines only travelled by night staying on iSlands by day â€" stayed twice in craters of old volcanoes which had water in them. Finally landed in the Gulf of Toranto South Italy â€" travelled overland through Italy, the Alps in Switzerland to Paris France. From France they crossed the Channel to London England - served again at Moore's Barracks nearly a year - transferred to Bassingstoke and served there until the end of the war.

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