Sweeping Mines in the North Atlantic by Frank A. Healy
formatted as it would have originally appeared by his daughter, Francie Healy
“Peace is Declared”
Frank Healy is second from the right.
Leslie Amos Payne
Keepsakes & letter from the Palace at Jodhpur
Contributed by the family
Gerald Levenston’s “Blue Diamond” Hamburger Stand was a hit with the troops and Alan Cane sent an annotated comic from the troop newsletter, The Maple Leaf, back to his wife Marion in Toronto. He wrote “OR’s only but I hear it is very good.”
“Mickie” Healy with her fellow WRENs, sharing letters from home. Mickie is on the bottom bunk, left.
Wedding photo of Kenneth Francis Henderson & Elsie Marie (Goodwin) Henderson. Kenneth wrote to his bride of his contributions on D-Day.
H18419 Rifleman W. H. Butcher
The letters from W.H. Butcher were found in the attic of an abandoned farmhouse and after many years, the finder finally tracked down his family and returned them.
A two-sided postcard sent to Jeannette Grzadka (nee Strebly) from her father in Paris in 1945.
Many Canadians led initiatives to help the war effort. Max Litman, father of soldier Sol Litman, helped match donations to the Lord Mayor’s National Distress Fund.
A letter from Sol Litman to his parents in Yiddish.
Keith Pollock’s Flight Log from Gibraltar (left). Keith was a radio operator and then a bomber from Havelock, Ontario.
He was shot down in Nov. 1942 over Gibraltar and reported MIA
This is the first page of a letter written to Matilda Eliza Thomson of Vancouver. Both Nell and her husband Percy, of 90 Claremount Road, Wallasey, sadly died on 12 March 1941 during a Luftwaffe air raid, both age 57, just three months after she wrote this letter. They are listed on the listed on the Cheshire Roll of Honour as Nellie Florence Evans (nee Dodman) and Charles Percy Evans.
The couple had two sons, Percy Aubrey Evans and Jeffrey Charles Evans and the family of Matilda Thomson would be very interested in hearing news of any of their relatives if these names are familiar.
Please contact DearCanadaLettersFromWW2@gmail.com