Stephanie Ann Warner’s latest blog article describes her recent visit to the Canadian Letters and Images Project at Vancouver Island University where Stephen Davies and his team digitized over 250 postcards, photos and personal items and made them available online. Stephanie’s article provides a great overview of this valuable Canadian Military History resource and I thank her for letting me share it with my readers.

My grandfather, Signaller Harold Monks, served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force from 1917-1919. He kept all of his war mementos (photos, letters, telegrams, handbooks etc). For almost 100 years this valuable – and often amusing! – record of the past was viewed by no one outside his family. Thanks to the Canadian Letters and Images […]

via Canadian Letters and Images Project helps share my grandfather’s WWI story — Stephanie Ann Warner