With thanks to the family member who shared the diaries of Ernest Berry, this article would not have been possible. Gainfully employed with a newborn baby boy barely one year old were not deterrents to Ernest Berry,[i] a bookbinder from Toronto, from enlisting for war. He loved his only son, calling his son Walter “Birdie”... Continue Reading →
“We Kingsville boys…”
A letter published in the November 4, 1915, edition of the Kingsville Reporter relates some of the experiences of Private "Harry" Sirverns, late of Kingsville, Ontario. The letter covers the early experiences of the 18th Battalion as it goes into the line and furnishes another lens from a foot soldier of the war from his... Continue Reading →
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 