Letters From Vincent

Name/Rank: Major John Cheyne Davidson, Chaplain Battalions: 93rd, 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital Born/Current Town: Newboro, Ontario/ Peterborough, Ontario Known as in Letters: Major Davidson, Canon Davidson Files: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B2323-S021 Major John Cheyne Davidson was the Chaplain, or as Vincent called him, the Canon for the 93rd Battalion when they first went over to England. He is mentioned in two of Vincent's letters home, on Aug

Name/Rank: Lieutenant Richard Phylis Adrian Crisp Battalions: 93rd, 39th, 6th Reserve (Air Force) Born/Current Town: Manchester, England/ Peterborough, Ontario Known as in Letters by: Crisp Files: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B2143-S015 Lieutenant Richard Phylis Adrian Crisp, I'm fairly certain, is the very first soldier that Vincent mentions in his letters, simply as "Crisp". He is mentioned in the first letter written on July 6, 1916: "Do not be ann

Dearest Mother & Father mine, I know you will be thinking me very ungrateful in not writing more than I do. I try and write a couple of letters each week but one days seems like another and it is like sending you a carbon copy of the letter previous. I went on leave the 23rd of last month and went straight from the front line to the boat and believe me we were having a hot time of it. So you see how would enjoy it. I had fourteen days in and about London. I got fitted out in

Dear Mother & Father, Well this is the third day of my leave. Am waiting in London for a couple of days in order to get some badly needed clothes, then I think I will go up to Scotland as I have my pass made out for there. How is everyone? I wish you were both with me here. Met Gordon Matthews, Wilfred Stratton, Merideth Huycke and all the rest. Stratton is just on his way home. London seems to be much the same as a year ago with fewer men about and perhaps a little quieter.

Dear Mother and Father, Just received your letters of July 2nd, also a bundle of Examiners. I hope you are all well. Am still at the course and there is a rumour about that is is to be extended two weeks making five weeks in all, the same as usual. I hope it is so as it certainly is an interesting course in a wonderful part of the country. We have fairly easy hours, work hard when we are at it and when we get off, there are all kinds of games to play, places to go and plenty

Dear Mother and Father, Just a few lines to let you know that I am in the best of health. Hope you are receiving my letters regularly. Received yours of the 10th of December. I suppose Mother, you are back home now. I hope you had a good trip to Toronto. Agnes will be getting along fine no doubt. Grandma will be quite comfortable in that she has some heat right with her all the time. I suppose she will kind of miss poking the fire but the heat will be there just the same. You

Dear Mother & Father, You will probably be thinking that I have been neglecting writing but if I haven’t been writing I have always been thinking of you. We do not get regular times to write. We may find time to attend to these things and then it might not occur again for a week or so. However, I will try and write oftener. It takes such a long while to get an answer to a letter that one is adept to become impatient. We are getting miserable weather here now. It rains continu