A History of Elmsdale, Elmsdale West, and Brockton, Prince Edward Island

The {waiving are brief extreme from a letter from the front written by MrJ R Yee to his sister, Mrs. John Burke. .12.: of Elmadalm-w . -‘

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ed on John Bull for awhile. Thiaia , no cinch; its} a reel war and a big and terrible u all were rolled into. one. I never believed there were no

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der and Mary (Currie) Warren. Enlisted November 9, “3130‘ tall y 011 very mac? M they 9 1914. Served in 105th and 26th Battalions. Killed in ac- usually cerium our and] want ’66

tion in France September 16, 1916. give than letter ‘0 a ft‘IIOW on the feeat’no'a‘she will inailit‘in England... My. chum in here new with”; bed ”head He “0de a Qerman bullet but be nilleome ”out o k. . I have a helmet and an em:- a kit that I get my self! This I :mll toward in you ”as men as I can. I have “a lot of stuff to send heme, and mnemg around to“ it We are fed well and .on the whole getting on tine again.

Island Farmer, November 17, 1915

After the battle of Langemarck we re— ported Harry Wells of Elmsdale among the missing. This week his sister Mrs. Arthur Rennie has received a card stat— ing he is a prisoner of war in

Germany. He says he is well.

Summerside Pioneer, June 26th 1915

Another Island Boy Private Harry Wells of Elmsdale is reported a prisoner of war at Geisen. He was captured along with about 500 British soldiers, it is reported by a trick of the Germans who lured them into trenches in which a substance like glue and cement seemed to hold them fast. The substance was so sticky that their hands stuck to their rifles with such tenacity as to peel the skin from their fingers when they attempted to let go, and their clothes and shoes took the skin with them , until they were informed that oil would loosen their hold. The Germans furnished a crude oil that seemed to counteract the adhesive qualities of the composition, and each prisoner was allowed to apply this, but only after some of the boys had been painfully lacerated.

Agriculturist, July 17, 1915

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