Cover of the Day Canada WWI

[Alan Baker]

I promised you more Canadian, but, by way of a change, this is from WWI

It is a card addressed to a signaller with the 31st Alberta Battalion, 2nd Canadian Division on the Western Front. It bears a Belgian Military Post cancellation dated 23rd April 1916. The message is written in French and the picture is a view of the bridge at Dixmude

The 31st Alberta Battalion embarked for England in May 1915 aboard the RMS Carpathia and after a period of training, fought in France and Belgium, suffering almost 1000 casualties. The addressee, CH Mardon apparently survived the war.

[Marc Parren]

The correspondence on the card shows that it was sent between comrades, so fellow soldiers. Apparently both serving on the front