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Chapter 4: Grandfather’s Journal

Posted on February 16, 2014 by brushedwithmystery

We stayed for some time at a boarding house in Hampstead and while there met Mr Creswick and his family. An officer in Dad’s (sic) regiment brought them in to tea and I received an invitation to spend the next … Continue reading →

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Chapter 3: Grandfather’s Journal

Posted on February 15, 2014 by brushedwithmystery

One day a wireless was received that a ship was sinking a short distance away.  She had been hit by two torpedoes and was sinking rapidly  but two destroyers were hurrying to the rescue.  We were all ordered to carry … Continue reading →

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Chapter 2: Grandfather’s Journal

Posted on February 15, 2014 by brushedwithmystery

  On the morning of the 1st we arrived at the dock feeling very damp and dispirited, during the next few years we were fated to see a great deal more of this kind of weather than we could appreciate. … Continue reading →

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Chapter 1: Grandfather’s Journal

Posted on February 15, 2014 by brushedwithmystery

(I found one of my grandfather’s journals while I was looking in a bin of family artifacts. It was written in a service book. It seems fitting somehow as the anniversary of the First World War approaches.  This, combined now … Continue reading →

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Gran’s Journal Nov 22, 1963- Kennedy’s Assassination

Posted on March 29, 2011 by brushedwithmystery

What follows in an excerpt of my gran’s 1963 journal.  I thought it was interesting to share a perspective from a Canadian who was hearing it on the radio- this is only the first entry from the day of the … Continue reading →

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