Letters From Vincent

Name/Rank: Lieutenant Arthur Ross Ackerman Battalions: 2nd Battalion, 1st Canadian Trench Mortar Battery Born/Recruited: Peterborough/Peterborough Known as in Letters: Art Ackerman Files: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=V0026-S008 Arthur Ackerman is one of the first times in Vincent's letters that he writes about finding out one of his friends has been killed on the battlefield. It is fairly early in his letters and before Vincent even gets to France. A

Name/Rank: Lieutenant Gordon Smithson Matthews Battalions: 3rd Divisional Supply Column, Born/Current Town: Peterborough Known as in Letters: Gordon Matthews Files: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B6046-S026 Gordon Matthews is one of the names that pops up fairly often in the letters that Vincent sends home. I would assume from this that they were pretty good friends and that the families would have been pretty familiar with each other as well. Though fr