A Letter Home: Some Personnel Changes

Excerpt from a letter from Captain McKeough to his home sometime in July 1916:

For the first time in months we have a full complement of officers & more are coming shortly. The Colonel has not yet reached here, but some are expecting him anytime. Arthur Carlisle [chaplain] got away about 6 days ago, but none of us have seen him for some time as we have been kept up & busy. Campbell Gwyn, my 2nd in the Coy, son of Colonel Gwyn of Dundas & a McGill Alpha Deet [Delta?][fraternity brother] & we hit it off well – a fine chap who came out originally with the 1st batt. Other new chaps are Mewburn & Brown of Hamilton, Sykes of Toronto etc. etc…

Antal, S., & Shackleton, K. (2006). The First World War – Better With Experience. In Duty nobly done: The official history of the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment (1st ed., pp. 203-204). Windsor, ON: Walkerville Pub.

Of the men mentioned in this letter the following survived the War: Sykes and Carlisle.

The following men did not survive: Gwyn, Brown, and Mewburn,