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Date: 5th
Artwork

[Editor’s note: The autograph book has been divided into five parts. Below is Part 5: pages 40-47.]

Page 40:
     Good Heaven!
Oh, harken to this song of mine!
‘Tis true, you may rely!
St. Peter has hung out a sign:
“No Germans need apply!”
            H.L. Cleveland
            507373
            Div. Sig. Co. C.E.
            Cookshire, Que.,
            Canada.
            4-11-18
            Ward 36,
            O.M.H.,
            Orpington, Kent.

Page 41:
[painting of swans on a river]
“Down where that Swannee River flows”
            Pte S.W. Kenderdine.
            TORONTO.

Page 42:
[paper collage of maple leaves around a picture of waving soldiers, no inscription]

Page 43:
To thine own self be true;
And it must follow as the night the day
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
            Sgt. E.A. Edson
            244 Battalion
            Montreal
            May 24/18
            Ontario Military Hospital
            Orpington, Kent

Page 44:
Aye, war they say is hell; it’s heaven too
It let’s a man discover what he’s worth
It takes his measure, shows what he can do,
Gives him a joy like nothing else on earth,
It fans in him a flame that otherwise
Would flicker out, these drab and sordid days;
It teaches him in pain and sacrifice
Faith, fortitude, grim courage past all praise.
            Willmot E.L. Sparks
            Capt. C.A.M.C.
            Toronto, Canada.
            Jan. 23rd 1918.
            #16 Canadian General Hospital
            Orpington, Kent.

Page 45:
[drawing of cottage]
           
T.H.H.F. 30-1-18.
“And i shall see the cottage on the hill
With all the loveliness of a summers day,
Whose memory to me is haunted still
By loves sweet voice, the witchery of her ways.
And i shall climb the path and ope the gate
When peace has come, if peace comes not too late.”
            Thos. H.H. Fortier
            Ward 35-
            Ont Military Hosp.

Page 46:
[drawing of tank amongst barbed wire and shell holes]
ORPINGTONS TANK IN ACTION
WARD 26
           
[?] J. Nebb
            12th Rifle Bge.
            6/1/1918

Page 47:
Here’s to those I love,
Here’s to those who love me,
Here’s to those who those I love,
And here’s to those who love those who love me.
            R.O. Callister
            10th Queens. R.W. Surrey’s
            Douglas
            Isle of Man
            Jan. 1918

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