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Title: Letter from Walter Beer to His Aunts
Description: Consists of letter from Private Walter Beer to his aunts. Item includes envelope and pressed flowers folded within a blank copy of Army Form C. 2121. Item also includes two photographs. The first photograph has Walter Beer standing in the upper right. The second photograph has Walter Beer on the right standing next to Bryn. Taped to the back of this photograph is a newspaper clipping "In Memoriam" to Walter Beer. The transcription is as follows: "BEER - In ever loving memory of Pte. Walter Treleaven Beer (15th Battalion Highlanders), second son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Beer, Strathroy (R. R. 3), Mrs. killed the night of October 10th, by machine gun fire - buried where he fello on the bank of the Scarpe Canal, near the Village of Blanche St. Vasst." Transcription of the letter is as follows: France Dec. 8. /17 Dear Aunties.- Yours rec'd some time ago but as I have been so busy couldn't answer them with a letter so just sent a card to let you know that I was well. We are out in billets now for a little while. I expect to go on post before we go in again. We get 14 days now instead of 10. So this should [bring] it so that I will be in [Whighty] for Xmas if I go when I expect to. I don't intend sending any Xmas Cards or anything home from here. Will wait until I get over there. You can't get anything here worth while anyway. I I suppose a lot of the boys are pretty well worked up about conscription. It's the only way that they will get some of these fellows. We had a vote on it last week. This battalion was stronger for the government. Well I will close now. Your loving nephew Letter from Walter Beer to his aunts.
Type: text
Fonds: Beer family fonds (F0375)
Accession / Box: 1994-031 / 001 (04)
Date: 8 December 1917
Identifier: ASC17725
Identifier (PID): yul:271003